Chicago Street Guide to the Supernatural

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Summary: It's About Time
Review: I have been on numerous tours with Richard and have always tried to remember everything that he covers within the 5 hours. And now with the book it greatly helps out with the smaller details muched overlooked by some. Keep up the good work.

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Summary: About Time Richard
Review: I have been on NUMEROUS tours with the famed Richard T Crowe and have been interested in Chicagos vast supernatural history since a young age. The book is a great fountain of information of folk lore stories, locations, and even it you don't believe good information on the windy city. Keep up the good work,Richard.Check out his tours when in Chicago

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Summary: About Time Richard
Review: I have been on NUMEROUS tours with the famed Richard T Crowe and have been interested in Chicagos vast supernatural history since a young age. The book is a great fountain of information of folk lore stories, locations, and even it you don't believe good information on the windy city. Keep up the good work,Richard.Check out his tours when in Chicago

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Summary: The authoritative guide to Chicago's Ghosts - a great read.
Review: In his book, Richard Crowe attempts to provide the reader with a compilation of "ghost stories," associated with the greater Chicagoland area. What he accomplishes, however, is a fantastic guide to many supernatural sites (not limited to hauntings, but also to curses, hexes, and other superstitions and otherworldly phenomena). He is a superb story teller, and many of the passages in the book will give you "the willies." One reviewer commented that much of the book is "folklore" and this is true. However, I have not seen too many tales of hauntings published in scientific journals. Our source, as a society, of supernatural stories is folklore and people like Richard Crowe, who keep these stories alive. I recently was a guest on one of his tours, and it is far from a "party bus." It is a great, fun time, but it is a tour, not a ghost hunt or research expedition. I never knew so many places that people walk through (such as the alley near the biograph theatre where Dillinger died) are haunted places. I would recommend this book and his tour to anyone with even a passing interest in the supernatural history of Chicago. The book also features great pictures of almost every site, and is very well written. It is one of my favorite ghost books.

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Summary: Chicago Ghost Tours: The Print version
Review: The person who buys this book should be someone who has been on one of Richard Crowe's ghost tours and is purchasing the book as a kind of souvenir. Crowe isn't much of a writer: the text of "Chicago Street Guide to the Supernatural" is mostly a word-by-word duplication of the speeches he gives on his tours. That being said, Crowe really knows his stuff. He's been giving ghost tours in Chicago for years and could talk to you for hours about any of the haunted locations mentioned in his book. He's not a scientist and not exactly a historian, but Crowe specializes in legends, and that's what ghost stories are made of. This book contains summaries of Chicago's most famous ghost stories, including Resurrection Mary and John Dillinger. Crowe includes information that he obtained from interviews as well as many interesting photographs. It's an interesting and entertaining read, and anyone interested in learning more about Supernatural Chicago will enjoy it immensely.

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Summary: Chicago Ghost Tours: The Print version
Review: The person who buys this book should be someone who has been on one of Richard Crowe's ghost tours and is purchasing the book as a kind of souvenir. Crowe isn't much of a writer: the text of "Chicago Street Guide to the Supernatural" is mostly a word-by-word duplication of the speeches he gives on his tours. That being said, Crowe really knows his stuff. He's been giving ghost tours in Chicago for years and could talk to you for hours about any of the haunted locations mentioned in his book. He's not a scientist and not exactly a historian, but Crowe specializes in legends, and that's what ghost stories are made of. This book contains summaries of Chicago's most famous ghost stories, including Resurrection Mary and John Dillinger. Crowe includes information that he obtained from interviews as well as many interesting photographs. It's an interesting and entertaining read, and anyone interested in learning more about Supernatural Chicago will enjoy it immensely.

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Summary: Chicago Ghost Tours: The Print version
Review: The person who buys this book should be someone who has been on one of Richard Crowe's ghost tours and is purchasing the book as a kind of souvenir. Crowe isn't much of a writer: the text of "Chicago Street Guide to the Supernatural" is mostly a word-by-word duplication of the speeches he gives on his tours. That being said, Crowe really knows his stuff. He's been giving ghost tours in Chicago for years and could talk to you for hours about any of the haunted locations mentioned in his book. He's not a scientist and not exactly a historian, but Crowe specializes in legends, and that's what ghost stories are made of. This book contains summaries of Chicago's most famous ghost stories, including Resurrection Mary and John Dillinger. Crowe includes information that he obtained from interviews as well as many interesting photographs. It's an interesting and entertaining read, and anyone interested in learning more about Supernatural Chicago will enjoy it immensely.

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Summary: Nothing too great as most proclaim...
Review: This book comes from a person who is into legends and lore. I'll give him credit for that much of his book. The information he talks about is not 100% accurate, the dates are wrong as one example. For someone who is suppose to be an expert in the field, only makes you wonder where he got the information. To my knowledge its all legneds & lore in the book and no actual research. The tours he gives is basically a bar hopping event, makes you wonder why they see spirits. I couldn't find him to ask a question at one of the off the bus stops, maybe he is also a ghost. The tour was more of a party bus and its goes so quick by some of the locations you barely see anything. If your looking for a party take his tour.

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Summary: Like the other books
Review: This book does nothing more than reprint most common "folklore" of the Chicago area. With the exception of a handful of comments in the book, it sounds the same as any other books out there on Chicago haunted sites. After attending one or two tours on Chicago's haunted sites, you would have the same information as this book offers. This book is nothing special. The Author's Chicago Ghost tours are nothing more than a shopping trip with stops at stores, pubs and resturants to spend money. No information about hauntings is give off the bus only shopping. I would recommend Dale Kacmarek's books on Chicago Ghosts because he is a noted researcher and investigator and not a "folklorist" who collects stories to retell.

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Summary: Get the Book - Skip the Tour
Review: This book is written in a concise and easy to read format. As a chicago suburb native, I enjoyed reading tales about places and areas that I am familiar with and have been to. AS FOR THE TOUR, I was completely disappointed. Imagine sitting on a bus for four hours listening to the "micro-machine guy" rattle through places where people have seen ghosts. Very little story telling actually took place on the tour. Basically, we'd drive past a store stuck between a subway and dunkin donuts and he'd say, "so and so died here...now it's haunted," and that would be it. He even had to nerve to tell us that his last bus driver quit because he saw a ghost, and that was the end of that story. Instead of hearing stories about China Town we stopped at a chinese grocery store and he tried to get us to buy knock-off Guchi bags. Anyways, get the book if you are local to Chicago, forget the tour.