ABSTRACT
Novelist Henry B. Fuller is said to have written that Chicago was the one great city of the world whose people lived for the single purpose of making money. Chicago has been written about in poems, songs, limericks, ethnic jokes, political satire, and nearly every other form of literature known. Chicago and its urban region is a major power in the world, in the nation, and within Illinois. The seasonal mud in the streets of Chicago was the first environmental factor that early Chicago had to overcome. The groups located in three areas: just west of the Chicago River in an area known as the West Side, north of downtown in the Near North Side, and along the Chicago River near the stockyards. Parallel to the significant structural changes in Chicago and its suburbs were the profound social and environmental alterations. Pullman, a preserved historic community in far south Chicago, had only eleven thousand people in 1980.
