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Ideals, Morals, and The Daily Newspaper: A Guest Editorial by Chicago History on Aug 27, 2009FOR two centuries now if not longer the newspapers, rather than the preachers and reformers generally who preceded and still parallel them, have been elevating themselves to the roles of soothsayer, prophet, and guardians of all phases of virtue, hon...

On Chicago: Sister Carrie's Chicago by Chicago History on Apr 24, 2009"In 1889 Chicago had the peculiar qualifications of growth which made such adventuresome pilgrimages even on the part of young girls plausible. Its many and growing commercial opportunities gave it widespread fame, which made of it a giant magnet, dr...