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The Cliff-Dwellers

Between the former site of old Fort Dearborn and the present site of our newest Board of Trade there lies a restricted yet tumultuous territory through which, during the course of the last fifty years, the rushing streams of commerce have worn many a deep and rugged chasm. These great canons—conduits, in fact, for the leaping volume of an ever-increasing prosperity—cross each other with a sort of systematic rectangularity, and in deference to the practical directness of local requirements they are in general called simply—streets. Each of these canons is closed in by a long frontage of towering cliffs, and these soaring walls of brick and limestone and granite rise higher and higher with each succeeding year, according as the work of erosion at their bases goes onward—the work of that seething flood of carts, carriages, omnibuses, cabs, cars, messengers, shoppers, clerks, and capitalists, which surges with increasing violence for every passing day. Summary by HENRY B. FULLER

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Introduction (Bhavya)
Chapter I (Saba Fatima)
Chapter II (Diana Therriault)
Chapter III (ChadH94)
Chapter IV (Matt Bishop)
Chapter V (Kathleen Moore)
Chapter VI (Kathleen Moore)
Chapter VII (Kathleen Moore)
Chapter VIII (Campbell Schelp)
Chapter IX (Brian Dirkx)
Chapter X (Dwarika)
Chapter XI (Campbell Schelp)
Chapter XII (Lynette Caulkins)
Chapter XIII (Lynette Caulkins)
Chapter XIV (Lynette Caulkins)
Chapter XV (KevinS)
Chapter XVI (Harshita K)
Chapter XVII (Harshita K)
Chapter XIII (Campbell Schelp)
Chapter XIX (Lynette Caulkins)
Chapter XX (Lynette Caulkins)
Chapter XXI (Rita Boutros)
Chapter XXII (Rita Boutros)
Chapter XXIII (Rita Boutros)
Chapter XXIV (Rita Boutros)
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