In the tradition of E. B. Whitersquo;s bestselling Here Is New York; Chicago a tribute to the “Second Cityrdquo;—part history; part memoir; and 100% Studs Terkel—infused with anecdotes; memories; and reflections that celebrate the great city.Chicago was home to the countryrsquo;s first skyscraper (a ten-story building built in 1884) and marks the start of the famed "Route 66." It is also the birthplace of the remote control (Zenith); the car radio (Motorola) and the first major American city to elect a woman (Jane Byrne) and then an African American man (Harold Washington) as mayor. Its literary and journalistic history is just as dazzling; and includes Nelson Algren; Mike Royko and Sara Paretsky. From Al Capone to the street riots during the Democratic National Convention in 1968; Chicago; in the words of Terkel himself; “has—as they used to whisper of the townrsquo;s fast woman—a reputation.rdquo;Chicago was of course also home to the Pulitzer Prize–winning oral historian Studs Terkel; who moved to Chicago in 1922 as an eight-year-old and who would make it his home until his death in 2008 at the age of 96. This book is a splendid evocation of Studsrsquo; hometown in all its glory—and all its imperfection.
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