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The food that fuels hardworking Chicagoans includes such local classics as Spinning Salad, Flaming Saganaki, Jumpballs, Jim Shoes, Pizza Puffs, and Pullman Bread. The restaurants, bakeries, taverns, and pushcarts of the city, cherished from one generation to the next, offer satisfying warmth in winter and...
2) Aurora
Covered wagons brought a wave of migration to northern Illinois in the mid-1830s. On April 1, 1834, the first permanent white settlers, Joseph McCarthy and two assistants, paddled up the Fox River. The vicinity was known as Waubonsie's Village at that time. They built a log cabin, a dam across the Fox, and eventually a sawmill. The village had about 400 Native Americans who bartered fish for bread and tobacco. For almost 175 years now, growth has
..."Don't turn back. Begin anew."
Thirty-six-year-old Amanda Reynolds has it all. She has a loving, successful husband, two beautiful daughters and a perfect, manicured home in a quaint suburb of Chicago.
But demons hide where no one looks and Amanda's past is full of them—she's addicted to alcohol. The reasons for her addiction have been buried for years.
One horrifying day, suppressed memories resurface and Amanda
...In 1991, it seemed odd (if not unwise) when a minor
league franchise moved into a major league market—
one with two big league teams, no less. But the story
of the Kane County Cougars of the single-A Midwest
League has been one of tremendous successes on
the field, at the gates, and above all in the hearts of
baseball fans in Chicago's western suburbs. The team
continues to draw more than half a million fans to
Geneva's cozy
...The author of Haunted Illinois visits the criminal history of the Windy City neighborhood where mobsters and murderers plied their trades.
In 1929, Chicago gangster Al Capone arranged a special St. Valentine’s Day delivery for his favorite arch enemies: a massacre. Seven North Side mobsters were left dead. Yet random killings and bizarre murders were not unfamiliar in Chicago. Tales of the city’s most
The author of Haunted Illinois takes readers to the Windy City’s wild west, where criminals from Frank Capone to John Wayne Gacy left their mark.
Blazing from the West Side, the Great Chicago Fire left nothing but ashy remnants of the developing city, leveling its landscape but certainly not its spirit. While the West Side was home to the infamous O’Leary barn, it was also where news of some of
North Aurora: 1834-1940 is a quintessential study of what happened when settlers arrived in the Midwest in the 1830s. The village's location on the Fox River provided plentiful trees and waterpower for sawmills. Soon other mills, smelting works, a packing plant, a door-sash-blind factory, and a creamery all came to town. The village's railroad enabled its Boswell Cheese Factory to ship cream cheese to England in 1877. By 1922, North Aurora had
..."Will have readers bouncing on the edge of their comfortable chairs."
-Night Owl Reviews
What would you do if you found out your husband had been unfaithful?
Divorce him? Take him back?
Kill him?
Mark Monroe becomes the victim of option "C" after his wife, Kelly, discovers evidence of an illicit affair and stabs him to death. In a panic, she flees, deciding she will turn herself in the next day.
But before she
...13) Nanoland
WELCOME TO NANOLAND, where all your dreams can come true. But when those dreams turn deadly, survival becomes the ultimate fantasy.
Nanoland brings legendary filmmaker Frank Nano's creative vision to life on an island off the coast of Florida. Visitors flock from around the globe to see colossal prehistoric beasts, ride sentient roller coasters, and battle in the Cosmic Coliseum.
After ten years of playing a Nano Princess,
...When the one person standing between you and true love is the wife you never knew you had...
When Aisha travels to Las Vegas with her fiancée Kris, all she wants is to get married. The venue is booked. The music has been chosen. The flowers are perfect. The guests are arriving.
On the casino floor Aisha runs into a long lost college friend. They'd gotten fake "married" many years before as part of a protest for
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