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Field Guide to Chicago Hauntings
Author Jim Graczyk takes the reader on a tour of the haunted Windy City, Chicago in this condensed book on ghost stories. The book is the first in the Field Guide series and is meant to be taken into the field and used as reference to find the locations, hear the stories surrounding them and be directed right to the spot with concise directions.
124 pages, Paperback
Published April 1, 2006
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March 19, 2014
This is a copy and paste book. Nothing is original, just story taken from other books. Same old haunting heard time after time. Just a quick summary of the location, how the tragedy happened, and then a foot note stating if the place is haunted or not. Most of the stories talk about the death but then said no one has ever seen any ghostly activity. Then why put these stories in this book. Maybe just to fill up pages.
I did find very interesting the new laws that went into effect after these many tragedies happened. For example take the Wincrest Nursing Home Fire. The fire took the life of twenty-three people because the fire department and nursing staff were not well trained in the case of an emergency. Chicago put infect new laws such as:
1) Sprinkler systems in all new existing nursing homes should be electrically interconnected with the fire alarm systems for water flow.
2) Formal Fire department emergency training shall be provided to all nursing home personnel every six months to supplement the monthly inspection programs and existing training programs. Plus the nursing staff should be trained in the transporting of patients during an emergency, keeping patients calm and comfortable.
3) Dead-end hallways to be disallowed in all nursing homes.
4) All residents shall have ID bracelets that shall include the name, age, and medical diagnosis.
These are just a few things that changed after the fire. Besides the laws the rest of the book was bland. Nothing special and I could have looked up most of this info online. Still it was a quick read and had a couple stories I never heard of before. Still don’t waste your time on this book there are many other great haunting books out there.
I did find very interesting the new laws that went into effect after these many tragedies happened. For example take the Wincrest Nursing Home Fire. The fire took the life of twenty-three people because the fire department and nursing staff were not well trained in the case of an emergency. Chicago put infect new laws such as:
1) Sprinkler systems in all new existing nursing homes should be electrically interconnected with the fire alarm systems for water flow.
2) Formal Fire department emergency training shall be provided to all nursing home personnel every six months to supplement the monthly inspection programs and existing training programs. Plus the nursing staff should be trained in the transporting of patients during an emergency, keeping patients calm and comfortable.
3) Dead-end hallways to be disallowed in all nursing homes.
4) All residents shall have ID bracelets that shall include the name, age, and medical diagnosis.
These are just a few things that changed after the fire. Besides the laws the rest of the book was bland. Nothing special and I could have looked up most of this info online. Still it was a quick read and had a couple stories I never heard of before. Still don’t waste your time on this book there are many other great haunting books out there.
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