Every afternoon for the Chicago Daily News, the young Ben Hecht went out to find a story in the streets, and these are the best of them: fog patterns over the lake, an auctioneer’s wife, a man hunt, an art show argued over by two working men, and dozens of the city’s lonely and comic people.
Brilliant urban sketches by the future co-author of The Front Page, a portrait of Chicago in the early 1920s. Download the free EPUB.