Chicago Not for Tourists Guide 2025

The Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago is a map-based, neighborhood-by-neighborhood dream guide that divides Chi-Town into sixty mapped neighborhoods from Gold Coast and Lincoln Park to Wrigleyville and Lakeview. Designed to lighten the load of already street-savvy locals, commuters, business travelers, and yes, tourists too, every map is dotted with user-friendly NFT icons that plot the nearest essential services and entertainment locations, while providing important information on things like kid-friendly activities, public transportation, restaurants, bars, and Chicago s art scene. Need to find the best deep-dish pizza hideouts around? NFT has you covered. How about a list of the top sports attractions in the famously sports-crazy city? We ve got that, too. The nearest beach, jazz club, coffee shop, or bookstore--whatever you need--NFT puts it at your fingertips. This book also features: A foldout highway map Sections on the North Side, Near North Side, Near West Side, the Greater Loop, the South Side, and Greater Chicago More than 150 neighborhood and city maps It s the only key to the Windy City that Rahm Emanuel can t give you