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 in winter 2/26/2021

The V stands for her first name.

Sarah Paretsky’s Cubs loving detective Victoria Iphigenia Warshawski cleans up the problems of Chicago’s elite. In Indemnity Only, the first book in the series, Vic looks for the missing scion of a North Shore banking family. In V.I Warshawski (1991) , Kathleen Turner played V.I. protecting a strong willed tween against unidentified baddies, a reworking of the novel’s story.

Included on the map are 74 locations mentioned in Indemnity Only and 19 existing Chicago movie locations, for which I have relied heavily on the invaluable blog Itisfilmedthere. Have a look there for a complete record of all the V.I Warshawski locations and more Chicago film and TV filming sites.

This map is just two layers on the bigger Map where you can plan your own Chicago ride, run, or walk. Also, you can contact CBA for a custom guided ride that includes these sights and for gift certificates for the other cyclists in your life.

Indemnity Only (Sarah Paretsky, 1982)

V.I. Warshawki, 1991

Sources: Itisfilmedthere.com, jroyal‘s Community Walk, Icons8 (book icons), Nicholas Mollet’s Map Icon Collection (movie icons)

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