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When 1919 began, the town of Chicago looked like on the verge of transformation. Modernizers got an audacious, expensive intend to turn the town from a brawling, unglamorous place into "the Metropolis of the World". But just as the dream looked like within reach, pandemonium broke loose and the city's highest ambitions were out of the blue under harm by the same unbridled energies that got given delivery to them in the first place. It began on a balmy Monday day whenever a blimp in flames crashed through the roof covering of a occupied downtown standard bank, incinerating those inside. Within days, a racial occurrence at a hot, packed South Aspect beach spiraled into one of the worst metropolitan riots in American record, followed by a transit punch that paralyzed the town. Then, when it looked like as if things could get no worse, authorities looking for a six-year-old gal found out her body in a dark North Aspect basement. City of Scoundrels captures the tumultuous delivery of the modern American city, with all of its light and dark aspects in vivid relief.
