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"A wonderful book that tells you the basic truths of our city." —Studs Terkel Few people know Chicago as do Rick Kogan and Charles Osgood, and their "Sidewalks" column for the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine is a tour of the city like no other, taking readers to the off-beat and quintessential spots that give Chicago its character—that make its inhabitants feel at home and tell its visitors that they have arrived. Accompanied by evocative color photographs by Charles Osgood, Kogan's pieces revisit the lost places and people of Chicago, and take readers down the quiet byways and thriving thoroughfares, pointing out the characters and cornerstones, the oddities and institutions that make the city what it is. In this collection you will find an elegy for Maxwell Street, the marketplace that pulsed with city life for more than 100 years; a remembrance of a disturbing advertisement ("Are you a slave to housework?") on the side of a building on Irving Park Road; a cross marking a deadly intersection; a magical miniature golf course; as well as ballad singer Fred Holstein, the denizens of the World Gym and memories of Bensinger's pool hall, the day-camp kids of summer, bike couriers, the creatures of the beach, and much, much more. Here is Chicago, past, present, and—let's hope—future, captured in the unique archive of Sidewalks.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780810123496 |
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| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press |
| Publication date: | 11/20/2006 |
| Series: | Chicago Lives |
| Edition description: | 1 |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Product dimensions: | 9.00(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Born and raised in Chicago, Rick Kogan began his newspaper career at sixteen. He has worked for the Chicago Daily News,Chicago Sun-Times, and Chicago Tribune, where he is a senior writer and columnist for the Sunday magazine. He is the author of ten books, including Yesterday’s Chicago (in collaboration with his father, Herman); Everybody Pays: Two Men, One Murder, and the Price of Truth (in collaboration with Maurice Possley); America’s Mom: The Life, Lessons, and Legacy of Ann Landers; and A Chicago Tavern: A Goat, a Curse, and the American Dream, the history of the Billy Goat. He is also the creator and host of WGN’s Sunday Papers with Rick Kogan.
Charles Osgood was born in Milwaukee and raised in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He attended Ripon College and received a master of fine arts in photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After beginning his career at the City News Bureau, he came to the Chicago Tribune as a reporter, switching to photography, his lifelong passion, in 1970. Since then assignments have taken him along sidewalks around the world.
Charles Osgood was born in Milwaukee and raised in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He attended Ripon College and received a master of fine arts in photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After beginning his career at the City News Bureau, he came to the Chicago Tribune as a reporter, switching to photography, his lifelong passion, in 1970. Since then assignments have taken him along sidewalks around the world.
Table of Contents
Preface ix
Morning on Maxwell 2
A Life on the Water 4
The Flock of Fifty-Third 6
A Good Walk Unspoiled 8
High on Religion 10
Running the Tables 12
Post no Belles 14
Clean Machines 18
Nine Lives to Live 20
Healing and Hope 22
Big Big Man 24
The Man on the Porch 26
Biking in Blizzards 28
A Bloody Good Pub 30
Somewhere 32
Making a Splash 34
Just Plain Folk 36
In the Corn 38
The Kids of Summer 40
One Very Big Bat 42
Hot Coffee, Cool Cats 44
And Now 46
Barn Again 48
Memories of a Blue Bike 50
And They're Off 52
Decades of Grunts 56
My Lover the Car 58
Giving Back 60
Spicy Surprises 62
Little Big Man 64
Ethan's Little Secret 66
Underground Books 68
Sundaysin Saloons 70
Urban Beasts 72
Uptown Guy 74
C'mon In-Really 76
Two Stories, No Waiting 78
Skull Session 80
A Life in Three Acts 82
Poetry in Commotion 84
Follow the Bouncing Ball 88
When the Mood Strikes 90
The Collector 92
Keeping Pace With Mustangs 94
Boo's Soul Kitchen 96
Taking it to the Streets 98
Writing on the Wall 100
A Taste of Cotton Candy 102
No Place Like Home 104
Set 'Em Up 106
A Cat and Mouse Story 108
Kids Stuff 110
Jazz and Guns 112
Of Bar Stools and Barbershops 114
Hope in Hammond 116
Keeping the Faith 120
Adventures in the Skin Trade 122
Life At a Buck a Bag 124
Rough Road 126
Innocence of the Cows 128
The Fixers 130
Rocky at Royko's Grove 132
Hot Dog Fever 134
Art of the State 136
A Street-Smart Fellow 138
Winter wonderlands 140
Making a Mark 142
Tito Gets a Haircut 144
The Roadside Gallery 148
A Thriving Five-and-Ten 150
A Refugee's Lasting Legacy 152
A Cold Day in Paradise 154
The Death of Big Kitty 156
The Sands of Time 158
Uneasy Neighbors 160
The Oldest Library 162
Happy Endings 164
Creatures of the Beach 166
A Toothpick Titanic 168
Well Traveled 170
A Patch of Peace 172
In a Day's Work 174
Life and Death on the River 176
Ham and Fromage 178
Any Way the Wind Blows 180
A Novel Garden 184
When in Roma's 186
Still Tough 188
Words to Live By 190
Meet the Doughnut Man 192
Local Literature 194
Saloons in the Sky 196
Written on the Rocks 198
Eating at Joe's 200
Hooked on Ice 202
The Battle of Balbo 204
What's for Frokost? 208
Dubious Honors 210
The Quick Brown Fox 212
A Touch of the Past 214
Loving Bonnie 216
Of Bullets and Bricks 218
A Winning Meal Ticket 220
The Way Things Were 222
An Ode to Bologna 224
Mr. Barber 226
A Deadly Shortcut 228
American Dreamer 230
A Cop Who Loved Music 232
A Big Hug 234
The Last Beach 236
On the Road to Nowhere 238
New Voices in the Park 240
Acknowledgments 243
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