Chicago by Day and Night: The Pleasure Seeker’s Guide to the Paris of America is an actual guidebook to Chicago for visitors to the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. This unauthorized handbook to the rowdy city outside the elegant fairgrounds explores pleasures high and low. The theaters and music, architectural glories, parks and boulevards, churches and synagogues, and other elevated pursuits the authors included in 1893 gave the book a veneer of high culture. But the book owed its popularity to its insider tips about Chicago's lurid and louche entertainments―drink, gambling, and sex. With a wink and tongue firmly in cheek, the original authors condemned Gilded Age vice while offering curious travelers precise directions to the dubious, decadent, and debauched quarters of the Windy City.  To introduce this compulsively readable, gift-quality journey through the Chicago of 1893, Chicago writers and humorists Paul Durica and Bill Savage have added an expert introduction to Gilded Age Chicago and the World's Columbian Exposition. Showcasing the first Ferris wheel, dazzling new electrification technologies, and exhibits from around the world, the Exposition was Chicago’s chance to prove it had risen from the ashes of the Great Fire and would claim a place among the world’s great cities. Both a perfect keepsake or gift for Chicago travelers as well as an invaluable text for readers interested in the history of Chicago, the Midwest, or Gilded Age urban life, Chicago by Day and Night is a beloved classic of Chicago writing.  “With humor and keen insight, Paul Durica and Bill Savage introduce modern readers to Chicago’s thrillingly lurid past. One hundred twenty years after its publication,  Chicago by Day and Night  remains a timeless and quintessential guide to the most sinful pleasures in the city’s incandescent history.” ―Karen Abbott, author of Sin in the Second City PAUL DURICA  is a writer and the founder of Pocket Guide to Hell Tours.  BILL SAVAGE is Distinguished Senior Lecturer in English at Northwestern Univer­sity. He coedited the 50th Anniversary Critical Edition of Nelson Algren’s The Man with the Golden Arm and the Newly Annotated Edition of Algren’s Chicago: City on the Make. Used Book in Good Condition