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To know Chicago is an experience in first principles: despair and a great hope. A despair, not so much because Chicago is cruel and crude as because “culture” has been struck upon its surface as a businessman’s expedient or thoughtlessly bought by the rich as a luxury. Bought in blissful ignorance of the more vital, less fashionable contribution Chicago has to make for life. Chicago has always been seen as a city that was …

…cities, or is it the magnificent buildings, or perhaps it’s the feeling that you get when you are in the city, that alive, adrenalin rush of emotions and feelings about what you have presented before you. You have two options, you can stay, and grow and thrive, or you can leave never knowing what could have been. Chicago isn’t a city built from appeal or charm, it’s a city built from LIFE.