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Wed 10 Oct 2009Mordant and fresh writing on the Windy City
BOOK OF THE DAY:Granta 108: Chicago. Granta Publications. pp288 £10.99
CHICAGO’S RECENT bid for the Olympics vanished quicker than the time it takes Usain Bolt to flash past the finish line. As Tom Humphries memorably wrote in this paper: the girl from Ipanema got the nod ahead of the boy from Hawaii. The boy from Hawaii, of course, being Chicago’s most famous recent resident, Barack Obama.
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