They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.
And there was no money in Chicago for a band.
It wasn't my intention ever to leave Chicago, that's for sure.
My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.
It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
The people of New York took a big chance on me. And I'm well aware of that.
We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.
A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways - those people were not the people who got the prize. The prize was California.
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