| Description |
143 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
American palate.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cheers -- Introduction -- Saloons and breweries on the Midwestern Prairie: from the Suaganash Hotel to Tied Houses -- Hinky Dink, Bathhouse John, and the Rise and Fall of the Vice District -- Temperance, Prohibition and Organized Crime -- The craft beer revival: Goose Island and Beyond -- Community in a glass: the corner bar -- Resources -- A subjective list of classic Chicago bars -- Notes |
| Summary |
Drinking in the Windy City has deep roots. Long before corner bars stitched the social fabric of Chicago's neighborhoods together, raucous pioneers like Mark Beaubien were fermenting over the untapped potential of the unbroken prairie. Take a determined saunter from the clamor of Chicago's first breweries, through the hidden passages of thousands of speakeasies and then back into the current of the contemporary craft beer revival. Follow a path plastered with portraits of infamous saloonkeepers and profiles of historic bars. Author June Sawyers serves as an expert guide, stopping very so often to collect a vintage beer label, explain an original recipe or salute the heady history that sits atop the City of Big Shouders. --Back cover. |
| Subject |
Beer -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Guidebooks.
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Brewing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Guidebooks.
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Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Guidebooks.
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Guidebooks.
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| ISBN |
146714925X |
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9781467149259 |
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