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North Shore Chicago: Houses of the Lakefront Suburbs, 1890-1940 by Stuart Cohen, Susan Benjamin

eengland's review

informative fast-paced

2.25

Lots of redundancy and constantly re-explaining who people were with each house, even after 10+ times of being discussed (looking at you, my man Jens Jensen) and an appendix of short biographical sketches. Pictures didn't have dates on them, despite the earlier sections sounding like some of the houses featured had both old and current photographs. 

First parts moved really slowly. Once we got to the house sketches, it moved very quickly because it was like 50-75% photos.