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Author Anderson, Jon, 1936-2014.

Title City watch : discovering the uncommon Chicago / Jon Anderson
Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) : illustrations
Contents Special Places : Tour That Thought It's Seen It All Takes in Real Eye-Boggler ; Saving Grace of a Lonely Life ; Poet Finds Past Job Maid to Order ; Wedgwood Society Dreams Still on the Table ; Gents (and Ladies) in White Reclaim Turf after Dry Spell ; Limousines: Not Just for the Rich -- Chicago Passions and Styles : "Wild Ones" Says It Simply Isn't So ; Clothes Found in Rubbish Don't Have to Look Trashy ; Five Guys in Their Forties Sing about, Well, Guys in Their Forties ; Foraging Friends Savor Tastes of Great Outdoors ; At Least Once a Month, Anarchists Reign at Meeting ; Courting Laughs ; Finding the Humor in Haggis ; Club Dispenses Plenty of Bon Mots ; "Deee-fense! Deee-fense!" ; Laundromats Take Clean to New Extremes -- All the New Thinking About the Arts : Portrait of the Artists: White Coats, but No Chisels ; Betting on Butter, Art Gallery Spreads It on Thick ; Faux Ethnic Dishes Feed Students' Minds ; Working-Class Artists Do a Little PR ; The Views from the Boat ; Fragments Gain New LIfe in Hands of Mosaic Artist ; Mittens Knit a Tribute to the 43 Forgotten ; Class Views Circus as Art ; String Fever ; For the CSO, It's Mahler Onstage and Ping-Pong Backstage -- Chicago: Land of Books and Writers : Hometown Hug for Hemingway ; Irish Author's Fans Gather to Celebrate Ulysses, Other Tales ; Booker Winners Don't Go by the Book When Collecting ; Where Old Books Go to Be Read Again ; A Sanctuary Where Writers Can Think and Be Creative ; He Chooses His Words Wisely -- Leaders of the Great Parades : A Mogul Talks about His Family Dynasty ; Czechs and Balances ; Lady Thatcher Sets Down Her Record ; "Am I Happy? Yes, I'm Happy!" ; Auctioneer to Host the Last Bash at Butler's Digs -- Chicago Lifestyles of the Not-So-Rich, Not-So-Famous : Cicero Cops on Crash Course ; Can't Go Home Again? Try the Bus ; Painting Tell Tales of Beverly Life ; Hopes Blossom in North Lawndale ; Austin Village Shows No Place Like Home ; A Hyde Park Denizen Comes of Age ; New Drive for South Side Y ; Memories of Titanic Unsinkable ; Light Pole Painter Has a True Brush with Fame ; The Ultimate Out-of-Towners ; River's Friends Go Where Only Most Hardy Dare -- Local Tactics in the Restless Search for Love : Shrinks in Love ; One Language Needs No Translation ; Small Delights on the Zephyr ; In Touch with Sex ; Algren Affair to Remember Lives Again ; Porn Star Missy Is Graphic about Safe Sex ; Marriage an Open Book for Loggins, Wife -- Oh, To Be a Fish (Or Cat) in Chicago : Finned Friends Cheer Lonely Guests ; Animal Lovers Ferret Out a Unique Halfway House ; 268 Paws Tug at Her Heartstrings ; Paws Put Furry Faces in the Adoption Market ; Gold Coast Pays Tribute to Its Storied Vet -- The Meaning of Life? Don't Ask : Suds, Sanctuary Are Match Made in Heaven ; A Generation Tries to Remember ... Something or Other ; Song Helps Rekindle Spark in Alzheimer's Patients ; Near-Death Experiences Share Common Thread ; The Meaning of LIfe? Don't Ask
Summary In forty-five years as one of Chicago's liveliest journalists for Time, Life, and the Chicago Tribune, Jon Anderson has established a reputation for picking up on what someone once called "the beauty of the specific fact." Part "Talk of the Town," part On the Road with Charles Kuralt, Anderson's twice-a-week "City Watch" columns in the Chicago Tribune seek out interesting and unexpected people and places from the everyday life of what the author calls the "most typical American big city." In the process he discovers the joys and triumphs of ordinary people
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Subject City and town life -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- State & Local.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- General.
City and town life
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography
Subject Illinois -- Chicago
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 00053645
ISBN 1587293315
9781587293313