[quote=@Naril] [@Poohead189] - One of the best books about Chicago that I've read is [i]Devil in the White City[/i], by Erik Larson. It chronicles the 1893 World's Columbian Exhibition, an event that still informs quite a lot about Chicago [i]to this day[/i], and the monstrous man who made the World's Fair his hunting ground as America's first widely-known serial killer. While the story concerns itself with things that happened over a century ago, you still get an amazing view of how Chicago operates that is directly applicable to today. I should point out that [i]Devil in the White City[/i] is pure nonfiction; everything in there actually happened and the book is a chronicle of real events and real people. That the story rather reads like urban supernatural horror is part of what makes it so terrifying. [/quote] Interesting...I've not read much nonfiction lately, other than [i]Under The Black Flag[/i] which is merely just research for a pirate story I'm writing up. That's really intriguing honestly, that Chicago is still relatively the same to this day. I'll see if my library has it, thank you! [@jasonwolf] Always pays to be informed. But yeah, I'm certain we'll be more concerned with the ghosts and vampires and not the geography in our posts.