`I have struck a city- a real city
- & they call it Chicago.. .I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages, ` so wrote Rudyard Kipling on his tour of America in 1899. From these inauspicious beginnings rose the `windy city`, home to the first skyscraper, gateway to the Great Lakes, birthplace of modern advertising & shorthand for stories about violent crime during America`s prohibition & Al Capone`s dominance of the ganglands. This book offers candid views of an extraordinary town, which has attracted citizens from all over Europe & the rest of the world. They have made the city what it is today
- & written about it variously with affection, loyalty, disgust & amazement.