Which restaurant to avoid in 1857, which bar to visit in 1979, where to buy cheap carpet in 1994 The first Chicago guidebook I ever read was written by a New Yorker. A gift from my father before I started college in Hyde Park, Mr. Cheap's Chicago by Mark Waldstein (1994) had a cover that promised "Bargains, factory outlets, off-price stores, deep discount stores, cheap eats, cheap places …
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