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Prairie Avenue Cookbook: Recipes and Recollections from Prominent 19th-Century Chicago Families

Carol Callahan, author

This unique cookbook provides recipes taken from prominent 19th century households along Prairie Avenue.  All recipes have been tested and modernized for today's cook. Illustrated with photographs of Prairie Avenue homes and its residents, this cookbook is filled with fascinating anecdotes and facts about the social history of Chicago.

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993

Hardcover $38.50

Chicago's Historic Prairie Avenue

William Tyre, author

AVAILABLE JUNE 6, 2008

Prairie Avenue evolved into Chicago's most exclusive residential street during the last three decades of the 19th century.  The city's wealthiest citizens - Marshall Field, Philip Armour, and George Pullman - were soon joined by dozens of Chicago's business, social, and civic leaders, establishing a neighborhood that the Chicago Herald proclaimed "a cluster of millionaires not to be matched for numbers anywhere else in the country."  This book, part of the Images of America series, contains over 200 historic photographs and traces the history of the area from 1812 to the present day.

Publisher: Arcadia Press, 2008

Paperback $19.99

Postcards of America:
Chicago's Historic Prairie Avenue

AVAILABLE JUNE 6, 2008

This booklet features fifteen selected views from the main volume (shown above) formatted for use as postcards.  Informative captions on the reverse of each card provide details on the houses and other buildings featured.

Publisher: Arcadia Press, 2008

$7.99