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special based on the topic is also avail-
able on video and DVD). For a con-
temporary look at life in Chicago, take
a look at two books that give a human
face to the city's shameful public-hous-
ing history: Daniel Coyle's
Hardball: A
Season in the Projects,
the true story of
youngsters on a Little League baseball
team from Cabrini Green; and Alex
Kotlowitz's
There Are No Children
Here,
a portrait of children growing up
in the Robert Taylor homes.
And, of course, no one has given a
voice to the people of Chicago as have
the estimable Studs Terkel, whose
books
Division Street: America, Work-
ing,
and
Chicago
are based on inter-
views with Chicagoans from every
neighborhood and income level; and
the late newspaper columnist Mike
Royko, author of perhaps the defini-
tive account of Chicago machine pol-
itics,
Boss.
His columns have been
collected in
One More Time: The Best
of Mike Royko
and
For The Love of
Mike: More of the Best of Mike Royko.
Chicago became a popular setting
for feature films in the 1980s and
1990s. For a look at Chicago on the
silver screen, check out
Ferris Bueller's
Day Off
(1985), the ultimate teenage
wish-fulfillment fantasy;
The Fugitive
(1993), which used the city's El trains
as an effective backdrop; and
My Best
Friend's Wedding
(1996). For many
Chicagoans, though, the quintessen-
tial hometown movie scene is the
finale to
The Blues Brothers
(1979),
which features a multicar pileup in the
center of downtown Daley Plaza.
