Chicago: Classic Photographs

Edited by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams

Never a Lovely So Real – Chicago is a big, beautiful, brutal city that resists being summarized, sermonized or sentimentalized. The 225 photographs collected here tell us part of Chicago’s story, showing us the city we know and remember, the city we’ve read about, and the city my 88-year-old Dad talks about when his mind wanders back to the South Side’s stockyards and the West Side’s coal yard and our old two-bedroom apartment upstairs in a Northwest Side two-flat in Chicago’s Jefferson Park neighborhood. If you love Chicago, you’ll want this book. If you’re just getting to know Chicago, you’ll need this book.