Chicago Beer: A History of Brewing, Public Drinking and the Corner Bar

$21.99 at Art Institute of Chicago.

Long before corner bars stitched the social fabric of Chicago's neighborhoods together, raucous pioneers like Mark Beaubien were fermenting over the untapped potential of the unbroken prairie. Take a determined saunter from the clamor of Chicago's first breweries, through the hidden passages of thousands of speakeasies and then back into the current of the contemporary craft beer revival. Follow a path plastered with portraits of infamous saloon keepers and profiles of historic bars. Author June Sawyers…