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Eric Bronsky

Born: in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Bronsky is a lifelong resident of Chicago.

Biography: Bronsky is an award winning author. He was recently presented the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal for Great Lakes Regional Non-Fiction for his book Downtown Chicago in Transition. He is also a transit enthusiast and freelance writer and photographer, worked as an architectural modelbuilder and historian for the City of Chicago under several mayors.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Eric Bronsky on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=eric++bronsky


Selected Titles

  Chicago's classic restaurants :
ISBN: 0985273305 OCLC: 768833053

Chicago's Books Press, Chicago : 2011.

The authors present a retrospective on Chicago's restaurants from the city's early years through present day, accompanied by residents' memories and images of neighborhood restaurants.

Downtown Chicago in transition /
ISBN: 0979789206 OCLC: 174114098

Chicago's Book Press, [Chicago, Ill.] : 2007.

Explores the dynamic changes that have continuously shaped the greater Loop district, from the late nineteenth century to the present time, in historical photographs and interviews with Jerome R. Butler, Micahel Demetrio, Jerry Field, Marshall Field V, Myles Jarrow, Gary T. Johnson, Bernard Judge, Mary Robinson Kalista, George E. Kanary, Mitch Markovitz, Robert Markovitz, Kay Mayer, James McDonough, Paul Meincke, Josephine Baskin Minow, James O'Connor, Potter Palmer IV, Ann Roth, J.J. Sedelmaier, and David Welch.

  The rise of the Magnificent Mile /
ISBN: 0979789257 OCLC: 263685477

Chicago's Book Press, [Chicago, Ill.] : ©2008.

 

 

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