• Narrator describes the Chicago as one of the toughest cities out there
• There are a series of robbings [-women ] going on by impersonaters,
• Daniel Burnham and John Root were Chicago's leading architects.
• Votes that were counted were bias (some of them)
• People in the city arent too hopefull in what they wish for

4Questions

• What did the narrator mean by "alien roofs"?
• How did chicago annex their land before the 1890 census?
• Was the population representation plan still in effect during this time?
• What made NewYork &Washington's leaders sense a chance of hope?

3Vocab

• Bordello: an establishment specifically dedicated to prostitution
• Grotesque: strange, fantastic, ugly or bizarre
• Annexing: the legal incorporation of some territory into another geo-political entity

2Literary Devices

• Metaphor: "The wait was electric, "(pg13)
• Metaphor: "as if it were a tangible force and prided themselves on the speed with which they had rebuilt the city after....."(pg16)

1Summarizing Sentence

• This Section of the book describes the poor architecture of Chicago, the crime rates, and criticism from other countries(France)