Four Books To Guide You Through Explorations Of The City S Built Environment

When you read this, I have no idea what the weather will be like.

Terminal Town: An Illustrated Guide to Chicago’s Airports, Bus Depots, Train Stations, and Steamship Landings, 1939-Present, by Joseph P. Schwieterman

At Home In The Loop: How Clout and Community Built Chicago’s Dearborn Park, by Lois Wille

In six thoughtful and well-arranged sections, Condit takes readers through the basics of the Chicago Plan of 1909, which would eventually bring us the Magnificent Mile and iconic cultural institutions such as the Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium. The footnotes to each chapter provide openings to various research wormholes for interested parties who want to learn more about the Lindbergh Beacon that graced the top of the Palmolive Building or the complex engineering that makes the water circulate at the Shedd Aquarium.

And if you wander by today with Drury’s book in hand?