Windy City Ghosts

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Summary: Outstanding Book
Review: Dale Kaczmarek has written the complete resource guide for anyone interested in ghosts and hauntings in the Chicago area. He is the #1 paranormal investigator in Chicago and has researched the stories behind the hauntings for decades. Kaczmarek provides a wealth of background information on each haunting he reports. Careful detective work from someone who truly does the research. If you have a real interest in ghosts and hauntings, this book belongs in your collection.

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Summary: Chicago's Pre-Eminent Ghost Hunter
Review: Dale Kaczmarek has written the complete resource guide for anyone interested in ghosts and hauntings in the Chicago area. He is the #1 paranormal investigator in Chicago and has researched the stories behind the hauntings for decades. Kaczmarek provides a wealth of background information on each haunting he reports. Careful detective work from someone who truly does the research. If you have a real interest in ghosts and hauntings, this book belongs in your collection.

Rating:
Summary: Outstanding Book
Review: Dale Kaczmarek is a noted researcher and President of the Ghost Research Society. He has been featured on (...)TV shows. His research is accurate and documented. He also offers tours in Chicago of the sites listed in this and his other books. Mr. Kaczmarek's books have no errors in fact of location. Ursala Bielski's book Chicago Haunts is full or factual errors and errors in location. For example Morton College is not located on Harlem Avenue in Berwyn, Illinois, it is located in Cicero, Illinois on Central Avenue. Further Morton West High School which is not haunted is located on Harlem in Berwyn.

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Summary: Sloppy grammatical errors, ho-hum stories
Review: This book, like the equally dreadful "Windy City Ghosts 2",
mixes grammatical errors, incomplete sentences, juvenile type,
and boring "ghost" stories to form one terrible book.
When a published author makes a grammatical mistake such as "...has had it's share of exciting, traumatic and terrifying days", it's bad. When an editor fails to find that glaring mistake, it's worse.
One tends to lose faith in the stories of an author who obviously rushed to get a book to press, with apparent lack of interest in both the English language and a decent ghost story.
Instead of this book, buy Ursula Bielski's "Chicago Haunts" and "More Chicago Haunts". They're well-written, well-researched, and it's hard to put the books down once you open them! Next time, I suggest Kaczmarek conduct more thorough research into both Chicago hauntings and common English language sentence structure.

Rating:
Summary: Amateurish
Review: This embarassing book claims to tell of hauntings but the ghost tale portion of each section is sketchy at best, sometimes barely even mentioned. Statements are made regarding supposed paranormal phenomena, but are not backed up with specifics and end up sounding like gossip only. This is a very shallow and poorly written book. There are numerous annoying typos, grammatical errors and word omissions. Sometimes information is listed that contradicts something just mentioned a sentence or two earlier. I can't recall ever reading such an unprofessionally written book. The photos look like they were made with a copier, and are difficult to see. Supposedly amazing or interesting photos that have been taken are mentioned, but those photos are not included!

I enjoy reading books on this subject a great deal and was looking forward to reading "Windy City Ghosts", but was very disappointed.