Frommer's Chicago 2004

Rating:
Summary: All the comments & suggestions were right on!
Review: I tried a few recommendations from Frommers and a few from local Chicago residents. I found the book's suggestions were more accurate that the residents'!

Frommer's isn't shy about giving opinions about places (e.g. "all the restaurants in Greektown are about the same") whereas Lonely Planet & other books tend to sound objective for their restaurant reviews & end up giving the traveler no guidance at all. Beware to call all the places you want to visit though. Even though my Frommers Chicago book is current (2004), I came across 1 restaurant in the book that already closed down, and found hours to the Art Institute had already changed.

Rating:
Summary: Not bad
Review: It was a decent overview and has a useful tear out map for the city. I was disappointed because the map for Wrigleyville showed the Improv Olympic theather in the wrong place causing us to almost miss the show.

Rating:
Summary: Not bad
Review: It was a decent overview and has a useful tear out map for the city. I was disappointed because the map for Wrigleyville showed the Improv Olympic theather in the wrong place causing us to almost miss the show.