Retired professor, urban historian, freelance journalist and former broadcaster. Check out my "Real, True Backstories of Old Chicago: As told Day by Day from 1673 to 1925". I recount hundreds of the same kinds of stories as heard in my Chicago VoiceMap tours, some shorter and some longer.

Available as an Amazon Kindle ebook. Just search for "Backstories of Old Chicago", Otherwise watch for me on the streets of Chicago. I'm the guy who's always asking "guess what happened here?" as I walk, bicycle, or drive with friends.

The United States has such a dynamic heritage, and historic places and bits of our culture are threatened with extinction every day. My VoiceMap philosophy is to try to rescue what has been lost and retell it to preserve its story. Sadly, too many of my tours are theater of the mind because the places and artifacts we all want to know more about are gone.

But imagination is continuity, and re-envisioning the past allows us to see things as they once were. Rekindle the spirit of your childhood and come along with me as we make real long lost worlds in our minds!