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Chicago One Os Greatest Cities

(EDITOR’S NOTE: What makes a city great ether thaa tta else atone? This to another in a series on •‘Great Cities of the World.” written hy United Press International correspondents who have spent much of their lives in their particular city.) Great Cities of the World No. 4—Chicago By ROBEKT T. LOUGHMAN United Press International CHICAGO (UPD—They came because there was something in Chicago they wanted — something they couldn't get back home. The Germans, the Irish, the Bohemians came and they joined the Kentuckians and the New Englanders and they got a city going, finally, and the city has had every kind of trotibie you can think of except maybe tidal waves and volcano eruptions. They’re still coming: The Poles, the Turks and the Slavs. They’ve never stopped coming from Georgia and Tennessee and Mississippi and Pennsylvania and Ohio and Indiana - and Missouri and Wyoming. The something they wanted here was work and it's still work and that’s why Chicago is one of the world’s greatest cities. There was a man who came here from New York named Al Capone. He found work. He was not a good man and the work he did was not good work. But he was so good at the work he did that he became known throughout the world and he helped make the name Chicago known everywhere as a place of bad people. In the Congo or Calcutta or Antwerp you meet a man and tell him you are from Chicago and he goes “rat-a-tat-tat-tat,” in imitation of a machine gun and he laughs because this is supposed to be funny. Marquette and Joliet are reported to have passed this way in 1673. In the 100 years or so afterwards not much happened around here. Then came a big federal project—Fort Dearborn. You can walk down Michigan Avenue from the Chicago River , south through Grant Park and past the big hotels to about 18th Street. That’s the route the men and women and children took from Fort Dearborn Aug. 15, 1812. They were leaving the fort because the English had aroused the Indians and they were headed for Fort Wayne, Ind. The party was attacked by Winnebagos and all but 43 were slaughtered. It’s ko w n as the Fort Dearborn massacre. Publictoed Massacre That massacre never got the publicity of another one in Chicago lift, years later on Feb. 14, 1929. On that St. Valentine’s Day five Capone gunmen, three of them dressed as policemen, lined up seven members of the Bugs Moran mob against a garage wall on North Clark Street and chopped them down with sub-machine guns. The St. Valentine’s Day massacre was the highwater mark of the fabled gang wars of Chicago. Yet Chicago still has its gangs and its gang killings. Back in 1830, the westward expansion had brought 50 people to the spot where the Chicago River met Lake Michigan. It was one of the most squalid hamlets in the Western Hemisphere but James Thompson, the town’s founder, that year laid out Chicago’s main streets along lines still followed to this day. Tn 1848, the Galena and Chicago Union, the city’s first railroad, came in across the slough of despond to the Des Plaines River. Within a few years there were five other railroads here. And it wasn’t long before Chicago became the world’s biggest railroad center and that’s how most of the people got here. The packers built their plants

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along the river but by 1864 the livestock business had become so scattered that the whole shebang was moved to a large area of South Side land. Crossed By Ditches This land had been crisscrossed with 30 milestof drainage ditches and 1,000 men freshly out <4 the Army built pens and sheds for the animals that would make Chicago known as hog butcher to the world. The stockyards are still here, but most of the packing operations are gone. In the era of the truck, it’s cheaper to slaughter cattle in Omaha. Chicago never dreamed the day would come when there would be more departures than arrivals. After all, this was the fastest growing city in the world, the place which jumped from half a hundred to half a million in its first 50 years and to 3.5 million in the next 50 years. Fourteen years ago the population was 3,620,962. Four years ago it was 70,558 less. Since then, estimates indicated, the loss has been 16,404. The Negro population has climbed steadily and is nearing one million. Most neighborhoods refuse to integrate and when the Negroes arrive the whites start looking at suburbs and real estate. Biggest Shopping Center The Loop is Chicago’s downtown. called the world's biggest shopping center. It is named the Loop because elevated tracks loop around the area. These tracks for 67 years have made Wabash, Lake, Van Buren and Wells streets sunless and noisy and, sometimes, blighted and honkeytonk-pocked. It would cost SIOO million to get rid of this shabby iron crown and the transit outfit doesn’t have the money. So this is Chicago, say the visitors, and you tell them here it isThis is the place where they shot up John Dillinger, where there are 225,000 people living in filing cabinets called public housing. This is the place which has the world’s busiest airport, the world’s largest exposition hall, the world's largest private office building and the world’s tallest hotel. Chicago is reported to have the world’s finest medical center. Chicago has three of the world’s worst skid rows. And this is where there have been dose to 1,000 gang-style murders since 1919—that the police know about. Plweer Nuclear Experiment This is where,’ on Dec. 2, 1942, under the grandstands of the foolball stadium at the University of Chicago, there was the first sustained and controlled release of nuclear energy—the key to the development of the atomic bomb. This is headquarters city of the American Medical Association, the American Bar Association and the Black Muslims. This is the place of “chicagostyle,” which refers to music as developed by men like Bix Beiderbecke. Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton . and later, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and Pee Wee Russell. Keep in mind, too, that this is a seaport, although the St. Lawrence Seaway so far hasn’t lived up to some of the promises issued by the drum beaters. Remember that O’Hare Airport is the world’s busiest, with 18 million passengers expected this year. This is the place they call the Windy City ami nobody knows why exactly, although it has been said that a congressman coined the phrase because, he said. Chicago people brag so much. ll J fl »l I. . ■ • -x ■ * J -<•' * - ** f JUNGLE JAUNT—You meet the strangest things on the rough road through. Nairobi ‘ National Park in Kenya. And giraffes always have the even if they hold up the East African Safari Rally. - - >

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