Never a City So Real (13 page)

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The Other Side of the River

There Are No Children Here

Grateful acknowledgment is made to
Donadio & Olson, Inc.,
for permission to reprint an excerpt from
Chicago: City on the Make
by Nelson Algren. Copyright © 1951 by Nelson Algren. Reprinted by permission of Donadio & Olson, Inc.

Copyright © 2004 by Alex Kotlowitz

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Title page photograph © Sandy Felsenthal/CORBIS

Map by Jackie Aher

Map source: City 2000

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kotlowitz, Alex.

Never a city so real: a walk in Chicago / Alex Kotlowitz.

1. Chicago (Ill.)—Social life and customs. 2. Chicago (Ill.)—Biography.
3. Chicago (Ill.)—Description and travel. I. Title.

F548.3.K68 2004

977.3′11–dc22 2004002860

eISBN: 978-1-4000-9750-0

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