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1 comments about Chicago People.

1. "You won't see the men and women pictured here on society pages or hobnobbing with the mayor..." (From the introduction.)

   Photographer Richard Younker has produced an important book, based upon more than 20 years of photographing and interviewing "ordinary people" in the Chicago area. He has given a voice to people rarely heard from, the people whose gaze we avoid in the street, who we often ignore and put out of mind.

   Yet these people are part of America and my city, and it's good to hear from them, if only for the three or four paragraphs reproduced across from their images.

   And the photography! Younker is a very subtle, fly on the wall operator, and his images ring true. In some he has confronted his subjects, in others they seem unaware of his presence. All the images "work," providing a wide ranging look at a variety of people he describes as "living close to the edge."

   Chicago People is a fine piece of work.

   Highly recommended!

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2 comments about Let's Go Map Guide Chicago (Let's Go Map Guides).

1. I like this pocket guide because it folds easily, won't rip after staying in your back pocket during the long El ride from Downtown to O'Hare, and is small enough to hide for those times when you want to blend in like a Chicagoan.

   The catch is, it's more of a handy map than a traveller's guidebook. I wish the maps had scales (guides to indicate, for example, that 1 inch equals a mile). Other than that, I'm happy with the book.




2. I bought this map/book because I was looking for a detailed map of the city. It's a good map of downtown , but it doesn't get down to complete street level, and it cuts off a good part of the outlying neighborhoods that Chicago encompasses.
   If you're going to make a map of Chicago, you should really include the whole thing. Let's Go, Inc. cuts off parts of wicker park, ukrainian village, and logan square, and parts of the north side. It concentrates too much on the near downtown area, and forgets about some worthwhile neighborhoods that people might want to visit or look for homes in.

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