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Review: The How, When, and Why of Rail Lines, A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps, by Jeremy Black

The 1897 image on pages 110 through11 of Jeremy Black’s A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps is a striking bird’s-eye view of Chicago, looking across downtown to the […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • March 9, 2025
    • Chicago history , Interviews , Lit

    Book Smarts: The Armadillo’s Pillow in Rogers Park

    Welcome (back) to Book Smarts, a semi-regular series profiling Chicago’s bookstores and their owners. We began the series way back in 2020…then the pandemic happened. As bookstores closed, the series […]

  • Binx Perino
  • February 4, 2025
    • Architecture , Art & Museums , Chicago history , Chicago history , Design , Lit , Museum , Nonfiction , Painting & sculpture , Sculpture

    Review: An Elegant Tour of Great Buildings, The Story of Architecture, by Witold Rybczynski

    The 1902 plan to revamp and expand the National Mall in Washington, DC, was the product of a commission of prominent Americans. Three of them worked closely together to produce […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • January 24, 2025
    • Chicago history , Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction , Suburbs and exurbs

    Review: “Dark Omen Indigo,”Postmortem, by Courtney Lund O’Neil

    Brushes with fame create anecdotes; brushes with infamy leave a scar. Such is the case with author Courtney Lund O’Neil’s mother Kimberly Byers-Lund, and by extension O’Neil herself. In her […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • January 12, 2025
    • Architecture , Art & Museums , Chicago history , Chicago history , Lit , Painting & sculpture

    Review: The Steeples Dotting Chicago’s Cityscape,Chicago Catholic Churches: A Sketchbook, by Harrison Fillmore

    Some time ago, a priest drove a bunch of us teenagers somewhere. As we headed down the Dan Ryan just past the turnoff for the Stevenson, he said, “Look out […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • January 11, 2025
    • Chicago history , Events , Lit , Poetry

    Glögg and Carols at Simon’s Tavern

    They come every year around this time, gathering at the long bar or huddling around the worn wooden tables. Many stand in the middle of the floor shoulder to shoulder […]

  • June Sawyers
  • December 22, 2024
    • Architecture , Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction , Photography

    Review: They All Stand Up, Louis Sullivan: An American Architect, by Patrick F. Cannon and James Caulfield

    Can something be both overexposed and unseen? After years of black and white images of Louis Sullivan’s buildings being demolished or in the midst of eradication, we tend to think […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • December 10, 2024
    • Chicago history , Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: A Testament to Survival and Listening, Also Here: Love, Literacy, and the Legacy of the Holocaust, by Brooke Randel

    In 1944, at the age of 13, Brooke Randel’s grandmother Golda Indig was with her older sister in the German death camp of Auschwitz. They had been separated from the rest […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • December 10, 2024
    • Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction , Photography , Reviews

    Review: Take a Vulgar Picture, Vivian Maier Developed, by Ann Marks

    Vivian Maier snapped pictures of a thousand other lives while making the lightest impression on life herself. In her biography Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny, […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • December 2, 2024
    • Chicago history , Chicago history , Comedy , Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: Exploding Myths: Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports by Mark Jacob and Matthew Jacob

    We want to hear from you! Take our brief reader survey now and share your feedback on what you love at Third Coast Review—and what we could be doing better! Plus, everyone […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • November 12, 2024
    • Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction , Writing

    A Letter: To the Man with the Red Checkered Shirt, Funny Hat, and Cigar

    We want to hear from you! Take our brief reader survey now and share your feedback on what you love at Third Coast Review—and what we could be doing better! Plus, everyone […]

  • Guest Author
  • November 11, 2024
    • Chicago history , Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: Trying to Avoid Dystopia—Cry My Beloved America by Alexander Polikoff

    We want to hear from you! Take our brief reader survey now and share your feedback on what you love at Third Coast Review—and what we could be doing better! Plus, everyone […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • November 1, 2024
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