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And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the oth...

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I am consoled only to see that I was not mistaken: Chicago is just as I remembered it. I was here tw...

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Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't ...

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Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and th...

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Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.

New Rule: Don't name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newb...

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Bill MaherThe New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sp...

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Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

And as if by magic - and it may have been magic, for I believe America is the land of magic, and tha...

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This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

Leon had attached himself to me in Chicago like a fat, brat-and-beer-filled tick; I was amazed that ...

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Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperce...

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... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can lov...

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Nelson AlgrenChicago: City on the Make

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

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Nelson AlgrenChicago: City on the Make

It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war ag...

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I bet you think fellas are the ones to remember a girl -- don't you?"He shook his head hurriedly, th...

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She was neither widow nor mother: she only yearned for the dignity of a woman who had once belonged,...

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Actually, they fought to fill the emptiness of their lives as they filled their empty glasses. They ...

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    "You ever been arrested before?"    "No sir. This is my first time."    "The first time this wee...

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