Dominic Pacyga - Chicago: the Biography November 4, 2009

Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it "A City on the Make." Carl Sandburg dubbed it the "City of Big Shoulders." Upton Sinclair christened it "The Jungle," while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it "the Second City." Dominic Pacyga gives his hometown the magisterial biography it has long deserved.