Chicago: The Biography

November 09, 2009 7:00 PM

Oak Brook - Borders
1500 16th Street, Suite D
Oak Brook, IL 60523

Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it A City on the Make. Carl Sandburg dubbed it the City of Big Shoulders. Upton Sinclair christened it The Jungle, while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it the Second City. At last there is a book for all of us, whatever we choose to call Chicago. Here, historian Dominic Pacyga gives his hometown the magisterial biography it has long deserved. Chicago traces the citys storied past.