The Chicago Area Golf Guide

A part of MT III Golf Media's Black Book series of national and regional course guidebooks, The Chicago Area Golf Guide is the definitive guidebook for the Chicago region, profiling every golf course in Cook, Lake, DuPage, Will, McHenry, Kane, Kendall, Grundy and Kankakee Counties. Continuing the series' tradition of providing accurate, detailed and candid assessments of each layout, its profiles range from 150-600 words and include a unique five-star Collectability Rating - a course rating method entirely exclusive to the Black Book. Each profile also offers a full range of ancillary information, from a layout's architectural genesis and contact information to its rating, slope, practice facilities and position in current national/state rankings. No other guidebook covers the region so candidly or comprehensively, or with so detailed an eye towards a course's history and design evolution. Thus also something of a reference volume for historians and architectural aficionados, The Chicago Area Golf Guide is an indispensable source of information for both visitors and local residents alike.

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In the middle of painful personal times, Chicago journalist Berner makes a decision that changes his life forever--he takes a job in a public school outside Chicago where the students are representations of society's "throw-aways."