Mother Chicago

Chicago lauded as hog-butcher by poet Sandburg, then damned as a cannibal in Sinclair''s The Jungle, was also a city of wanderers, truants, and delinquents. It was home to the largest tuberculosis sanitarium in the country, as well as a dizzying number of public and private institutions for wayward children, indigents, the mad, and the poor. Chicago''s socially progressive institutions were influe...