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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.)âSocial life and customs. 2. Chicago (Ill.)âBiography.
3. Chicago (Ill.)âDescription and travel. I. Title.
F548.3.K68 2004
977.3â²11âdc22 2004002860
eISBN: 978-1-4000-9750-0
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