Excerpt from Kup's Chicago For nearly twenty years, or ever since I began writing Kup's Column in the Chicago Times, now the Sun - Times, I've been following my town's daily drama and recording some of its history, checking its blood pressure, taking its pulse. In that time I have come to know many of its faces intimately, and it has many - from the stockyards to plush executive suites, from the slums and skid row to the Gold Coast. I've become acquainted with its politicos and merchant princes, its financial wizards and writers, and with the educators, clergy, sports heroes, hoodlums, and other con spicuous citizens and celebrities of our community. I've reported murders, scandals, marriages, premieres, and national political con ventions (of which Chicago has had more than any other city twenty-three). I've been amused, intrigued, outraged, enthralled, and eaperated by Chicago. And I've come to love this American giant, Viewing it as the most misunderstood, most underrated city in the world. There is none other quite like it, my City of Big Shoulders. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.