Chicago Outfit

itself in direct competition with France, who had hosted the fair a few years earlier, Chicago had America’s reputation in its hands. Larson’s novel follows the short-lived exposition highlighting not only how it came to life, but what was occurring on the outside of the white city. Throughout the novel, Larson uses powerful imagery and tone to create the perception of Chicago the entire world shared. Chicago was a city that lacked sanitation and was overcome by filth, a city in no way fit to…

Fixing the potholes in our roads would be a great improvement to our community because it would improve the community roads, it would stop people from swerving to miss the holes, and it would stop the damage when cars go through the potholes. Smoothing out the roads might help to take away the potholes. Potholes are a big problem on our roads in our community. First and foremost, smoothing out roads to take away the potholes would look nice in our community. By doing this, people coming in…

New York New York is one of the most popular cities in the world, attracting approximately 50 million tourists from all over the globe. This city is densely populated, so big that you will not explore the majority of it in your lifetime. The population is over 8.2 million residents, and about 30% of them are foreign-born enjoying a hustle-and-bustle cosmopolitan lifestyle rich in diversity. This city has a rich history, both politically and socially. It has a world-renowned cuisine and every…

barbaric displays of human aggression. There is other place in America that represents this more than the city of Chicago, Illinois: also known as the “murder…

Nancy G. Ballard’s Critical Evaluation links the setting of Zenith, the main city in Babbitt, to real life and describes the characteristics of the population as a whole in Zenith. Within her evaluation, she demonstrated that Zenith is a “typical progressive American “business city”” of the roaring twenties. She enriches the idea of the growing city by explaining the embarrassing “ramshackle witnesses of the city’s nineteenth-century origins”. With the modern city, she explains how Zenith’s…

Your essay, “The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found,” interested me because of your perspective on creating my own personal New York. As you mention at the end of your essay, I am part of what you call, “those new kids on the block,” in fact, I would call myself the newest kid on the block (CITATION). I am originally from a rural town in Pennsylvania and have come to New York City to not only educated myself through my classes, but also through examining the city. However, after reading…

In the article “As CPS schools empty: Mayor Emanuel, Dot let this crisis go to waste”, the Chicago tribune Editorial Board develops the different opinions on the controversial topic of closing down schools. School enrollment for Chicago public schools has become worse, in a comparison that was made with the enrollment for this fall it showed the dramatically drop of students that have vanish from CPS classrooms, which has led to the close of many schools. In 2013 fifty schools where close and…

In watching the Untouchables we discussed that Elliot Ness was a law enforcement official in Chicago. He was best known for his efforts to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment, or also known as Prohibition. This amendment prohibit the use of consumption or sale of alcohol. He joined the Prohibition Act in 1927 and reunited a team known as “The Untouchables” to battle the activities of Al Capone. Al Capone was responsible for many acts of violence. He was a person of good and wanted to do right…

No one epitomizes the spirit of teenage rebellion in relatively-recent pop culture better than Ferris Bueller himself from the 1986 John Hughes movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off; in a similarly sly fashion, an angst-filled Hamlet uses his skills as an actor to mask his true intentions. In a carefully orchestrated and highly successful attempt to ditch school for a day, Ferris convinces his parents of his alleged illness and finds himself laying in bed while the rest of his peers shuffle into class…

The Chicago Seven 1968 was a year full of violence, the turmoil in Chicago alone divided our country. The Chicago police attacked 6,000 anti war marchers, national leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were assassinated, and New York City students had taken over several buildings at Columbia University, by the time of the Democratic National Convention there was a lot of political tension.(“Democratic National Convention….”) The Chicago Seven were the accused leaders of the…