American City: Chicago

When I first came from Mississipi, I was so young and ignorant. But I was freer you know?         ( Lucy Jefferson, 52)  Viewing the ...

A radio documentary about mayor Harold, brought to you by the -- arguably -- best (English) radio show on the planet: "This American...

Warning!  Video depicts language that may not be considered offensive: Chicago a city so segregated that a gave ri...

"There is Chicago that lives in the minds of young people all through the Middle West...A Chicago that exists by virtue of their asp...

  "FIND A WRITER WHO IS INDUBITALLY AN AMERICAN in every pulse-beat, snort and adenoid, an American who has something new and pecu...

Teenager Arthur Agee sits on the bed in his room in his home in suburban Chicago, reaches over and picks up his pair of basketball sh...

"and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. B...

The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was created during the Great Depression in an attempt  to address rural poverty. It had a small bu...

At Last - Etta James As legendary guitarist Robert Johnson put it, Chicago has been a “sweet home” for the blues. The most recogn...

With the Great migration and the closure of Storyville, the centre of   jazz moved to Chicago . With the prohibition, the market demanded ...

Synopsis : Baldwin situates his story within the Great Migration and the evolution of a consumer culture within Chicago's burg...

     --Bessie Smith Chicago Bound Blues At the end of World War I, immigration form eastern Europe slowed down, as demand for American...

Jonas had told them how the meat that was taken out of pickle would often be found sour, and how they would rub it up with soda to take awa...

  Never a dull day in Chicago and Illinois politics .  Blagojevich , only convicted  on one count of lying to the FBI. Three governors  i...

CHICAGO HOG Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Na...

When Chicago's  $35 Million -- ugly, and environmentally unsound -- McCormick Place Convention Center, burned down in 1967, Mayor Da...

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.    -Charles Merriam, unsuccessful mayoral candidate in 1911 ...

- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail, 1973 Coming into land at Chicago'...

The lecture on urban architecture and Chicago history around the turn of the century fascinating and engaging. The themes were tied together...

Without the (obvious) choice of New York, selecting a city to study -- through literature, music, film, art, stories and people -- boils do...