Colorful Friend

Colorful Friend Chicai?o, With Love, by Arthur Meek- er. 302 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $4.75

Incorporated as recently as 1832, and almost entirely destroyed by fire in 1871, Chicago is nevertheless today a sober, middle-aged city, prosperously filled-out at the waist and as sure of its place in the sun as Rome.

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Robert Phelps

Colorful Friend Chicai?o, With Love, by Arthur Meek- er. 302 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $4.75

Incorporated as recently as 1832, and almost entirely destroyed by fire in 1871, Chicago is nevertheless today a sober, middle-aged city, prosperously filled-out at the waist and as sure of its place in the sun as Rome.