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Looking for a travel guide that goes where other guides fear to tread? One that rides roughshod over ad-copy puffery to smartly deliver the real scoop on a destination's sites and attractions? One that dares to be honest, hip, and fun? Look no more. Frommer's Irreverent Travel Guides are wickedly irreverent, unabashedly honest, and downright hilarious, and provide an insider's perspective on which attractions are overrated tourist traps and which are the secret gems that locals love. You'll get the lowdown on restaurants, lodging, and shopping, and even find out what the locals think of you. Like being taken around by a savvy local," said the New York Times. "Hipper and savvier than other guides," concurred Diversion magazine. Never shy about confronting the issues, the Irreverents are guides to real travel in the real world.
Chi-town has never seemed as vibrantly alive as it does in the pages of Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Chicago, a book that tells the story of the real Chicago, from an insider's standpoint. With its muscular past and its bustling present, Chicago is a workable city of serendipitous surprises: the glorious vastness of Lake Michigan, the smooth jazz vibe, and the self-effacing Midwestern sensibility--it may be more Big Easy than the Big Easy. In Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Chicago you get the straight scoop on all the places the locals love."
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"Like being taken around by a savvy local." ?The New York Times
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"Little fluff and lots of fun." ?Boston Globe
"Hipper and savvier than other guides." ?Diversion magazine
Are you tired of cliché-ridden guidebooks packed with promotional fluff? Then move over to the Irreverent Guides?the travel series that no tourist board would dare to recommend. Look inside for the lowdown on:
- Great hotels for retromaniacs?and which ones to avoid if you hate conventioneers
- Pizza that locals line up for in the dead of winter
- The top sights for techno-heads, talk-show junkies, pork-belly enthusiasts, and Wrightophiles
- Target zones for unrepentant shopaholics
- Where to listen to blues with the locals
- And much more!
About the authors Todd Savage is an editor at iExplore.com, an adventure and experiential travel company based in Chicago. As a freelance writer, he has contributed to several Frommer's books, including Frommer's Gay and Lesbian Europe and Frommer's Chicago, and has written for Chicago Tribune, Chicago magazine, Chicago Reader, Travel & Leisure, and Metropolis.
Dan Santow was a senior editor at Chicago magazine and an on-air correspondant for the city's Fox network news. After Chicago, Santow was a producer for "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and a staffwriter for People. He is the author of four children's books and, with businesswoman Leslie Hindman, of Adventures at the Auction.
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- Publisher*Frommers
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0764562304
- ISBN 13 9780764562303
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number3
- Number of pages210
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