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Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago 2020
The Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago is a map-based, neighborhood-by-neighborhood dream guide that divides Chi-Town into sixty mapped neighborhoods from Gold Coast and Lincoln Park to Wrigleyville and Lakeview. Designed to lighten the load of already street-savvy locals, commuters, business travelers, and yes, tourists too, every map is dotted with user-friendly NFT icons that plot the nearest essential services and entertainment locations, while providing important information on things like kid-friendly activities, public transportation, restaurants, bars, and Chicago’s art scene.
Need to find the best deep-dish pizza hideouts around? NFT has you covered. How about a list of the top sports attractions in the famously sports-crazy city? We’ve got that, too. The nearest beach, jazz club, coffee shop, or bookstore—whatever you need—NFT puts it at your fingertips. This book also features:
• A foldout highway map
• Sections on the North Side, Near North Side, Near West Side, the Greater Loop, the South Side, and Greater Chicago
• More than 150 neighborhood and city maps
It’s the only key to the Windy City that Rahm Emanuel can’t give you.
Need to find the best deep-dish pizza hideouts around? NFT has you covered. How about a list of the top sports attractions in the famously sports-crazy city? We’ve got that, too. The nearest beach, jazz club, coffee shop, or bookstore—whatever you need—NFT puts it at your fingertips. This book also features:
• A foldout highway map
• Sections on the North Side, Near North Side, Near West Side, the Greater Loop, the South Side, and Greater Chicago
• More than 150 neighborhood and city maps
It’s the only key to the Windy City that Rahm Emanuel can’t give you.
336 pages, Paperback
Published October 15, 2019
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March 27, 2013
Awesome guide. Not for the weak at heart traveler who likes the pictures and recommendation's from Frommer's or Fodor's. Don't get me wrong, F & F are great travel books, but the NFT guides get down to the nitty gritty of the city with up-to-date and easy to read street maps of the arts and entertainment, general, but essential information, parks & places to sports, colleges and universities. Just a awesome and well-thought travel guide/series.
July 19, 2012
While I didn't read the 2011 version, I did read the 2009 edition. I now have a long, long list of places, bars, restaurants, shops, etc in Chicago that I need to visit.
Perfect for any Chicagoan that likes visiting new places rather than the same ones.
Perfect for any Chicagoan that likes visiting new places rather than the same ones.
July 2, 2008
if you move to a new city, definitely check out the NFT guide. this book will always be on my "currently reading" shelf because it is like my bible. the best maps are found here.
October 12, 2019
Too many maps and not enough content. Interesting choices, but lacking in overall scope.
Also, the font is so tiny that it makes reading daunting.
Who is this for?
Also, the font is so tiny that it makes reading daunting.
Who is this for?
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews