Chicago

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Excerpt from Chicago: A PortraitFrom the north window Of a sky-scraper club, one looks down upon the birthplace of Chicago.What now lies there is a boulevard spanning a gray-blue river. The crossing is by a bridge which is one Of the busiest, though not the tallest, in the world. Past its heavy pillars, with their bas-reliefs, the boulevard runs on, inaccurately north. In the foreground stand sky-scrapers, like the halves Of an enormous gateway. Between these, and on and on, pass ing structures high and low, the street, a sleek ribbon, rises, narrows, rounds a slight bend, and disappears. Far below the point Of Observation two continuous rows of motor-cars glide like thin caterpillars, northward and southward.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.