Everything in this book is documented, without mixing outside ideas into local realities: only about the city and what is directly connected with it. Because few people know about Chicago - for some reason it happened that way. They know better about New York or even Miami, although Chicago is perhaps the second largest city in the United States, and there are plenty of objects with the epithet “Chicago” in a variety of industries. It’s almost like journalism here, albeit an intellectual one, by reading which you get not only educational information: what it is, why and how, but also aesthetic pleasure. Andrei Levkin is a cult author of many prose books, laureate of the Andrei Bely Prize (2001)