Was A.J. Liebling right about Chicago? Decades after the New Yorker’s ‘Second City,’ time for a second reading
- Posted on June 24, 2025
- By Chicago Tribune
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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.
