Chicago The Great Retirement Resource

I met the authors of this book at Chicago's Printer's Row Lit Fest earlier this year.  They were fantastic salesmen and I purchased the book from them there.  The two of them also co-authored another retirement book that they said covers everything imaginable about retirement. I was told that the Chicago version of their first book would contain the same information, including financial information.  

This Chicago retirement resource does not have financial information.  That did not bother me because I do not need that type of information.  At the time of the Lit Fest I had not decided on retiring but ended up doing so earlier this month.  This book has some great information on things to do and see in Chicago.  However, since I have a mobility impairment most of these activities are not within the realm of possibility for me.  I was disappointed.  There is tons of information on a wide variety of activities for healthy folks and the TABs (temporarily able bodied as we call them in the disability community), but leaves out accessibility information entirely.

While I am  disappointed with the book, I realize that only someone with a disability would be able to write such a guidebook for people with disabilities.  I wonder whether I should fill in this gap and write my own retirement resource book for my community.  After all, I already know what is possible and would not have to do much research. However, I am not feeling the oomph right now for writing a book.  Perhaps later.

Since this book has a lot of good ideas for things to become involved with I will rate the book a 3 out of 5 stars.