Mary Gray's A Guide to Chicago's Murals is the first definitive handbook to the treasures that can be found all over the city. With full-color illustrations of nearly two hundred Chicago murals and accompanying entries that describe their history—who commissioned them and why, how artists collaborated with architects, the subjects of the murals and their contexts—A Guide to Chicago`s Murals serves both a general and a specific audience. From post offices to libraries, fieldhouses to banks, and private clubs to street corners, Gray chronicles the amazing works of artists who have sought to make public declarations in this most social of art forms