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    Hit the streets: Jessica Mlinaric’s new book takes readers on a scavenger hunt across 17 Chicago neighborhoods

    CHICAGO -- Writer and photographer Jessica Mlinaric wants Chicagoans back on the streets. The last time we heard from her, it was 2018 and she was revealing tidbits of Chicago information, like where one can sunbathe on a Lake Michigan shipwreck and where one could ride in one of Chicago’s only manually operated elevators — all details found in her book “Secret Chicago: A Guide to the Weird, ...
    by Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune May 18, 2022 5 minutes
    Travel writer and photographer Jessica Mlinaric stands in front of the home where L. Frank Baum lived in the late 1800 s while he wrote "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."

    CHICAGO -- Writer and photographer Jessica Mlinaric wants Chicagoans back on the streets.

    The last time we heard from her, it was 2018 and she was revealing tidbits of Chicago information, like where one can sunbathe on a Lake Michigan shipwreck and where one could ride in one of Chicago’s only manually operated elevators — all details found in her book “Secret Chicago: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure.”

    The Wicker Park resident and urbnexplorer.com blogger now has a second book, “Chicago Scavenger: The Ultimate Search for Chicago’s Hidden Treasures,” — one that seeks to help readers explore the city and unlock the hidden gems in its neighborhoods.

    Mlinaric said she “wanted to come up with a way for people to engage in the city again, in a safe way.”

    “All of the places that are featured in ‘Scavenger’ are things you

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