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Ellen Shubart

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Lifelong Chicagoan Ellen has worked more than two decades as a journalist, some years as a college-level instructor, and others as a city planning advocate. A historian by training, with master’s degrees in U.S. history and historic preservation, she has written two books for Arcadia Publishing, Glencoe, Illinois and Taylor Street, Chicago’s Little Italy. She spends her retirement giving tours of Chicago architecture with the Chicago Architecture Foundation.

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Eighty-four sights, 170 photos, 91 sources painstakingly organized in the back by chapter, and a 402-item index covering 169 pages of text and photos come together in a new book: Secret North Shore-Chicago: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and

Book review: With her husband, Richard, as photographer, local writer Ellen Shubart visited every site, and sight (including the Baha’i temple, above), in her new book Secret North Shore-Chicago: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure.

On this edition of The Arts Section, host Gary Zidek talks to the author of a new book that explores Chicago’s North Shore.

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