A tour bike standing in front of a pale blue white trim wooden 1880s three story single family home.

Six photos from the CBA map for Indemnity Only (Sara Paretsky, 1982)

You can use the map to take a virtual tour while you read or to see the sights on your own. Contact CBA for a custom guided bike ride that includes these sites and gift certificates.

A tour bike leaning on a large retro space age swooping green and white gas station pull in cover.
Former Amoco filling station (George W. Terp, 1971) in Old Town Triangle – Vic checks her answering service. [No clear book description.  This Googie one is cool and on her way home]
A tour bike leaning on a chain link barrier with two Brutalist concrete building behind under a gray sky.
Stephenson Hall & University Hall (Walter Netsch, 1965) at UIC – Carol’s brother Paul is an architectural student at “The Circle”
A tour bike standing in front of a light blue and white trim painted three story wood 1880s home with an open field at the right.
4320 S Ellis Avenue (1883) in North Kenwood – Newspaper: Police have arrested Donald McKenzie [at the address of the open lot to the right] in the murder of banking heir Peter Thayer last Monday.
A tour bike standing at the base of a glass and blue steel city skyscraper.
 200 S Michigan (A Epstein & Sons Int, 1958) in the Loop– [The Ajax Insurance offices were a]…glass and steel high rise…on Michigan Avenue at Adams.
A tour bike leaning at the base of a four story tan brick corner turreted building.
Kavanagh’s Hall (1900) in South Chicago, Vic’s old neighborhood – “…if you know the area – lots of Polish steelworkers who didn’t welcome racial and ethnic newcomers – and the feeling was mutual”
A tour bike looking out over a frozen harbor with the high rise apartments near and the Chicago skyline in the far distance.
Belmont Harbor – “I did five easy miles – over to the lake  and around Belmont Harbor and back to my large, cheap apartment…“

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