Chicago Street Guide to the Supernatural

Rating:
Summary: Book mediocre, tour an unbelievable rip-off.....AVOID!
Review: This book presents an uninspired retread of the same stories you can get from any book on Chicago ghosts. There is really nothing new here; I would like to have seen a little more depth and research and not so much of the same tired tales I have heard since I was 8. As for the tour, my friend (almost former friend after this debacle) signed a bunch of us up. It was unequivocally the most boring, overpriced piece of tourist claptrap I have ever come across. It started out promising enough with a visit to the Biograph Theater and the death site of John Dillinger. I should have quit while I was ahead. The tour then spiraled downhill from there, eventually becoming almost comically bad (I say almost because of its ridiculously steep price). It was all over for me when we stopped at a Chinese grocery store where our "guide" obviously got some sort of kickback for parading a bunch of clueless tourists through the place. His monologue on Chinatown, which we were in for 45 minutes, was "Chinatown has a lot of ghost stories. Here is our next stop where you can buy candy and handbags." The tour was 4+ hours and, I kid you not, we heard at most 20 minutes of stories. That man should be ashamed of himself, I wish I had been mugged on the way there....I still would have lost my
money but at least I would have saved a few hours of time. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!