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Excerpt from Wicked City
All these forces working hand in hand are rapidly making a new Chicago. Exposures of evil of all sorts in high as well as low circles are continuous. God's pure sunlight is being poured into some of the foulest haunts the world has ever known and the festering evil is slowly but surely being cleansed and purified by its rays. But crime is not yet dead, for new conditions have to be met with newer methods but dishonest business men and grafting poli ticians, the thug with his sand bag and the confidence man with his oily manner eke but a precarious living in the new Chicago.
The foregoing remarks are, perhaps, out of the ordinary, - Jbut, The Wicked City is a New Idea book by a New Idea man. Mr. Stevens has studied for years the phase of life with which this book deals and his work shows a full knowledge of the subject differing widely from the vaporings of the stranger sociological student who visits the city for a few days and then in?icts the result of his observations upon the public in the form of an essay. The Wicked City is an odd story, well plotted, and written in an unusual way, ably mingling fact and fiction. Mr. Stevens is essentially a business man, and the fact is apparent in his work for it is his idea to give his readers a story of living breathing people connected with well authenticated facts of Chicago history with which the whole country is familiar, only making necessary changes of the names of the principal characters. He makes no attempt at idealistic rhetorical ?ights, and eliminating all unnecessary descrip tion, through dealing with a phase of life with which few people are familiar. It is a real story of real life in the real true Chi cago.
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