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The acclaimed writer of You Will Find No Children Here takes us in to the heart of Chicago by introducing us with a of the city’s most intriguing, or even always celebrated, people.Chicago is among America’s most famous, historic, and fascinating cities, in addition to a significant vacation destination. For Alex Kotlowitz, an accidental Chicagoan, it's an ideal perch that to peer into America’s center. It’s a location, as you historian has said, of “messy vitalities,” a stew of contradictions: harsh yet gentle, idealistic yet restrained, hurting using its guarantee, alternatively unsure and positive of itself. Detroit, like America, is just a type of sanctuary for outsiders.