From the Book - First edition.
Foreword / John Callaway --
The human factor / Dean Grazier --
God help us / Barbara Proctor --
Is it funny in Zurich? / Joe Sedelmaier --
Sinatra and me / Walt Parazaider --
The warmth of her touch / Mae Jemison --
Love in November / Richard Melman --
Waiting for Michael / Sugar Rautbord --
Hungry for the blues / Buddy Guy --
I am brave, I am a Chicagoan / Nicole Hollander --
The whole truth / Christie Hefner --
Stoppard, Mamet, Chekov and me / John Mahoney --
Seventy-first and Jeffrey / David Mamet --
Too many cooks? / Sophie Madej --
News today, comedy tonight / Aaron Freeman --
Black and blue / Stan Mikita --
Searching for babushkas / Tim Kazurinsky --
Cherries jubilee / Denise DeClue --
God, I am in Chicago / Jesse Jackson --
What will it do for Chicago? / Leo Melamed --
It is good you came / Gwendolyn Brooks --
Just as planned / Helmut Jahn --
Second chance / George Wendt --
It wasn't the weather / Oprah Winfrey --
My son, Abraham / Abraham Lincoln Marovitz --
Thoughts for my daughter / Anchee Min --
Making records / Koko Taylor --
Beef stew / William Petersen --
Earth mother / Joyce Sloane --
In partnership / Joseph Cardinal Bernardin --
Innocence in Chicago / Daryl Hannah --
Chicago beat / Irv Kupcinet --
More than money / Sid Luckman --
Impossible / James McHugh --
Not from Schaumburg / Amy Madigan --
Wild kingdom / Lester Fisher --
Central Sox time / Jim Thompson --
Give peace a chance / Mark Rogovin --
Making it / Roger Ebert --
Rays of light / Marva Collins --
My Chicago / Richard Stern --
Power of the music / Ben Hollis --
Lessons in success / John H. Johnson --
The naked city / Sara Paretsky --
Yin and yang at Comiskey / Ed Paschke --
Rescued from the dark sea of silence / H. Gene & Joe Silverberg --
Toward the 21st / Ardis Krainik --
No place for a poet / Ana Castillo --
Heading home / Minnie Minoso --
Your corner saloon / Clarence Page --
Flash bulletin / Jack Brickhouse --
Full house / Chet Coppock --
The little theater / Liz Phair --
The sun piercing through the clouds / Juan Ramirez --
No observable diminution / John Swearingen --
God's mysterious ways / Fr. George Clements --
Big city / Renee Hartz --
Against the wind / Bill Pinkney --