ABSTRACT
The imputed qualities of a city, once established by the person describing it, can be elaborated by illustration and pointed anecdote which are aimed at demonstrating how the city's qualities shine through typical events and institutions. Any characterization or description of a city is also an interpretation. Even a small city is so many-sided, its people and their activities so varied that different interpretations and characterizations of it are given by its citizens and by its visitors as well. Chicago expects to become the largest city in America—a city which, in fifty years, shall be larger than the consolidated cities that may form New York at that time. The end to which any city is built—the mark of its success—is what it provides in work and in homes for its people. Measured by this standard Chicago is a great city. It is that city which its business men know and which the world should know.
