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 Rand McNally Street Guide: Chicago 7-County (Cook * DuPage * Kane * Kendall * Lake * McHenry * Will) $34.95 This is an excellent supplement to GPS machines, and much cheaper. My suggestions for the next edition: Put the "Cities and Communities" section either at the very front or the very back. My older edition has this information on the inside covers, which is even better, but the current information does not fit on two pages. Still, the inside covers are being wasted now. The front has some unnecessary promotional text and the back cover is blank. The abbreviations could be put on one of these locations and the legend on the other. The index material's edges should be in various colors to make them easy to find. Tabs could help with this. There should be some maps that help give an overall sense of the areas covered. With everything fragmented into little sections, it is hard to see the forest for the trees. Each county should have a page that covers the whole county. And there should be a two-page map that covers the complete area. The continuous pagination is preferable to the other company's division into separate sections for each county, although some explanation for why the map numbers start at 2,349 would be nice (I may have just missed it in the text). The PageFinder Map is a bit hard to read. Using lighter colors and stretching it over two pages would help. The correlation with the Chicago grid centered on Madison and State street is a good idea. Information on one-way streets in downtown Chicago would be helpful too. You might want to incorporate material found in _Turner's Chicagoland Street Guide, Including Suburbs & Expressways, Taxi & Limo Edition_, such as the grid systems in the suburbs and where you can get on or off freeways. It might help to think about how the atlas could be useful to taxi-drivers. Then salesmen could promote the atlas to cab companies. Arguments should be made as to why paper maps are still needed despite GPS systems.  Chicago and Cook County: A Guide to Research $24.95 I recently purchased this book to aid the geneology research into my family history on the patriachal side of my family. Have found it an excellent aid and pointer to avenues to persue.  Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove of Vintage 78s 1926-1937 (Digipak with 72-page booklet) $18.98 you wanna hear america hear is or hear it was in all that made america before we all sold are souls to the effectives of a in effeective globe captilism. god bless you joe may you live forever and ever |
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