This Used to Be Chicago

Warning: with This Used to Be Chicago as your guide, you may never look at Chicago the same again. Every building has a past -- author Joni Hirsch Blackman finds the stories behind more than 90 Chicago buildings that used to be something else: the liquor store that used to be a speakeasy during Prohibition; the yacht club that used to be a ferry boat; the countless condominiums that used to be cracker, shoe, postcard or piano factories and, perhaps the most incongruous, the circus school th...