A practical and entertaining guide to Chicago for cycling enthusiasts
This handy compact guide tells you all you need to know about seeing Chicago on two wheels. With chapters dedicated to various sights and neighborhoods―Wicker Park, Lakefront Path South, West Side, Lincoln Park, and Downtown―City Cycling USA: Chicago dispels the myth that the Windy City can’t be toured by bike.
Each area is mapped out in detail and includes recommendations for cafes, bars, galleries, museums, shops, and parks that are worth a visit. Cyclists can follow a set itinerary or pick and choose as they wish. For cycling enthusiasts, the section on Racing and Training gives some context to Chicago’s cycling heritage and offers ideas for longer and more scenic routes in the countryside. Illustrated throughout

City Cycling USA: Chicago

Sports & Outdoors

Borzo, Greg

Individual Sports

Thames&Hudson

Published in association with Rapha Racing: practical guides for cycling enthusiasts traveling in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and San Francisco
From suburban sidewalks to city centers, everyone is getting on a bike; cycling offers a cheap, independent, green, and healthy way to explore. While bike tourism has existed for decades, it has never been easier thanks to new urban bike routes, city-sponsored rental services, and easily transportable bicycles.
For City Cycling USA, Thames &amp; Hudson has once again teamed up with the sophisticated cycling brand, Rapha Racing, to produce a series of city-cycling guides geared to seeing Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and San Francisco on two wheels. Each of the four compact volumes―available in a boxed set that includes all four cities―features cycle-friendly neighborhoods, complete with itineraries, cycle maps, and cyclist-friendly sites to visit. These guides are aimed at people interested in casual exploration, but they also include information for hardcore racing enthusiasts. Designed with the cyclist in mind, the information-packed paperbacks will fit into a backpack or back pocket. Illustrated throughout

City Cycling USA: Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco

Seaton, Matt

Wright, Kelton

2018 IPPY Award Silver Medalist for Great Lakes Nonfiction Winner, ISHS Annual Award for Other Publications, 2018 Most people do not realize it, but Chicago is home to many diverse, artistic, fascinating, and architecturally and historically important fountains. In this attractive volume, Greg Borzo reveals more than one hundred outdoor public fountains of Chicago with noteworthy, amusing, or surprising stories about these gems. Complementing Borzo’s engagingly written text are around one hundred beautiful fine-art color photos of the fountains, taken by photographer Julia Thiel for this book, and a smaller number of historical photos. Greg Borzo begins by providing an overview of Chicago’s fountains and discussing the oldest ones, explaining who built them and why, how they survived as long as they have, and what they tell us about early Chicago. At the heart of the book are four thematic chapters on drinking fountains, iconic fountains, plaza fountains, and park and parkway fountains. Among the iconic fountains described are Buckingham (in Grant Park), Crown (in Millennium Park), Centennial (with its water cannon shooting over the Chicago River), and two fountains designed by famed sculptor Lorado Taft (Time and Great Lakes). Plazas all around Chicago—in the neighborhoods as well as downtown—have fountains that anchor communities or enhance the skyscrapers they adorn. Also presented are the fountains in Chicago’s parks, some designed by renowned artists and many often overlooked or taken for granted. A chapter on the self-proclaimed City of Fountains, Kansas City, Missouri, shows how Chicago’s city planners could raise public awareness and funding for the care and preservation of these important landmarks. Also covered are a brief period of fountain building and rehabbing (1997–2002) that vastly enriched the city; fountains that no longer exist; and proposed Chicago fountains that were never built, as well as the future of fountain design. A beautiful photography book and a guide to the city’s many fountains, Chicago’s Fabulous Fountains also provides fascinating histories and behind-the-scenes stories of these underappreciated artistic and architectural treasures of the Windy City.

Chicago's Fabulous Fountains

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Southern Illinois University Press

Where to Bike Chicago, Best Biking in the City and Suburbs

Where to Bike Chicago: Best Biking in City and Suburbs

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

B & A Pr

Where to Bike Chicago, Best biking in the C ity and suburbs

Where to Bike: Best Biking in City and Suburbs

Product Description 
Founded next to a great lake and a sluggish river, Chicago grew faster than any city ever has. Splendid department stores created modern retailing, and the skyscraper was invented to handle the needs of booming businesses in an increasingly concentrated downtown. The stockyards fed the world, and railroads turned the city into the nation's transportation hub. A great fire leveled the city, but Chicago rose again. Glorious museums, churches and theaters sprang up. Explore a missile site that became a bird sanctuary and discover how Chicago's first public library came to be located in an abandoned water tank. Follow the steps of business leaders and society dames, anarchists and army generals, and learn whose ashes were surreptitiously sprinkled over Wrigley Field. Combining years of research and countless miles of guided tours, author Greg Borzo pursues Chicago's sweeping historical arc through its fascinating nooks and crannies. 
 About the Author 
Greg Borzo is an award-winning journalist and writer. He has written several books, including 
The Chicago "L"; Chicago Cable Cars; RAGBRAI: America's Favorite Bicycle Ride; Where to Bike Chicago; Chicago's Fabulous Fountains; and 
Lost Restaurants of Chicago. He's a reviewer for the Chicago Writer's Association, a lecturer at Harper College and Oakton Community College and the treasurer and program chair of the Society of Midland Authors. Borzo is a member of the Chicago Tour-Guide Professional Association and has led walking, biking and bus tours around Chicago for the Chicago History Museum, Chicago Cycling Club, Forgotten Chicago, Women Bike Chicago, Biketropolis, tour groups and other organizations. He would welcome speaking engagements and tour requests, as well as any reactions to this book.

History Lover's Guide to Chicago, A (History & Guide)

Reference

The History Press

Many of Chicago's greatest or most unusual restaurants are "no longer taking reservations," but they're definitely not forgotten. From steakhouses to delis, these dining destinations attracted movie stars, fed the hungry, launched nationwide trends and created a smorgasbord of culinary choices. Stretching across almost two centuries of memorable service and adventurous menus, this book revisits the institutions entrusted with the city's special occasions. Noted author Greg Borzo dishes out course after course of fondly remembered fare, from Maxim's to Charlie Trotter's and Trader Vic's to the Blackhawk.

Lost Restaurants of Chicago

History Press Library Editions

Founded next to a great lake and a sluggish river, Chicago grew faster than any city ever has. Splendid department stores created modern retailing, and the skyscraper was invented to handle the needs of booming businesses in an increasingly concentrated downtown. The stockyards fed the world, and railroads turned the city into the nation's transportation hub. A great fire leveled the city, but Chicago rose again. Glorious museums, churches and theaters sprang up. Explore a missile site that became a bird sanctuary and discover how Chicago's first public library came to be located in an abandoned water tank. Follow the steps of business leaders and society dames, anarchists and army generals, and learn whose ashes were surreptitiously sprinkled over Wrigley Field. Combining years of research and countless miles of guided tours, author Greg Borzo pursues Chicago's sweeping historical arc through its fascinating nooks and crannies.

History Lover's Guide to Chicago (History & Guide)

History PR

When most people hear cable car" they think "San Francisco." Yet for almost one-quarter of a century Chicago boasted the largest cable car system the world has ever seen, transporting more than one billion riders. This gigantic public work filled residents with pride--and filled robber barons' pockets with money. It also sparked a cable car building boom that spread to twenty-six other U.S. cities. But after twenty-five years, the boom went bust, and Chicago abandoned its cable car system. Today, the fascinating story of the rise and fall of Chicago's cable cars is all but forgotten. Having already written the history of the "L," Greg Borzo guides readers through a stretch of Chicago's transit history that most people never knew existed--even though they have been walking past, riding over and even dining in remnants of it for years. . ."

Chicago Cable Cars

History

Americas

Launched as a lark in 1973, RAGBRAI has developed into the world's largest, longest and oldest bicycle touring event. Thousands of cyclists from all fifty states and dozens of countries ride across Iowa for a weeklong festival. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of hospitable Iowans welcome, feed and shelter this rolling carnival, showcasing their communities. Greg Borzo has gathered hundreds of stories that reveal the essence of this unique event. He has also gathered a lavish collection of photographs and cartoons--vintage and contemporary, most never published before--that illustrate RAGBRAI's kaleidoscopic character.

RAGBRAI:: America's Favorite Bicycle Ride

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