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Chi Town Paperback - 2003

by Norbert Blei

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The final work of the acclaimed Chicago Trilogy, this collection of nonfiction tales reveals Sandburg's "city of the big shoulders," concrete and neon; uptown and downtown; State Street, Michigan Avenue; the river, the lake; the matter-of-factness and poetry of Chicago people-from Mike Royko describing his neighborhood to the observations of newspaper vendors, from Studs Terkel interviewing jazz great Dave Brubeck to dinner with Petros in Greek Town. Written with a keen eye, Blei's stories evoke a vanished Chicago, a city of gritty and colorful neighborhoods and their gritty and colorful characters. It is, as he writes, a "love letter to a city that has meant so much to me."

Chi Townis the story of Norbert Blei's love affair with a city that shaped both his life and work. Along the route of this walking tour of the Windy City, you'll dine with Petros in Greek Town, see Studs Terkel in action at WFMT interviewing Dave Brubeck, listen to Mike Royko describe his own neighborhood, share the thoughts of Chicago sportswriter Jerome Holtzman, and meet newspaper vendors, trash collectors, bankers and more.

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  • Title Chi Town
  • Author Norbert Blei
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Thus
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Northwestern University Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2003-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780810120402 / 0810120402
  • Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.64 x 5.6 x 0.83 in (21.95 x 14.22 x 2.11 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Geographic Orientation: Illinois
    • Locality: Chicago, Illinois
  • Category Travel - United States
  • Library of Congress subjects Chicago (Ill.), Chicago (Ill.) - Description and travel
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002044922
  • Dewey Decimal Code 977.311

About the author

Norbert Blei is a veteran of the famous City News Bureau of Chicago, winner of a Pushcart Prize in fiction, the author of seventeen books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, and the editor/publisher of a small press dedicated to emerging and neglected writers, Cross+Roads Press. Among his many works are the two other books in his Chicago Trilogy, The Ghost of Sandburg's Phizzog (Ellis, 1987) and Neighborhood (Ellis, 1998), and a collection of poems, Paint Me a Picture/Make Me a Poem (Spoon River, 1987). Born and raised in Chicago, he now lives in Door County, Wisconsin.
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