Arguably nothing in 100 years of the New Yorker landed on Chicago with more oomph than A.J. Liebling’s infamous 1952 three-part profile of the city.
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Was A.J. Liebling right about Chicago? Decades after the New Yorker’s ‘Second City,’ time for a second reading

Why does one book live rent-free in Chicago’s head? We went back to his 1952 assessment of our city to find out what he got right, what he got wrong and why it still feels so hard to shake.

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