Excerpt from Prairie AvenuePrairie Avenue is a novel and, like all novels, is a mixture of fact and fiction. None of the characters is meant to be a portrait of any actual Chicagoan, living or dead; the author has, both intentionally and unintentionally (as a novelist must), scrambled houses and people, births and marriages, divorces and deaths, so that (he hopes) it would be a very wise descendant indeed who could match his ancestors to the histo ries belonging to them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.