Chicago For Dummies
Chapter One
Discovering the Best
of Chicago
In This Chapter
* Kicking back: Baseball and the blues
* Getting highbrow: Performing arts, museums, and architecture
* Eating your way around town
Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders
-Carl Sandburg, Chicago
In this chapter, you get a sampling of the qualities that make Chicago
the most American of American cities. Today, you'd hardly recognize
Chicago by Sandburg's description. No longer home to stockyards, the
city is a cosmopolitan, vibrant place. But Chicago still retains its unique
identity: big and brawling, inventive, and wonderfully diverse. Chicago is
the least pretentious and most livable metropolis in the United States -
and maybe the most visitable, too.
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