Introduction / by Gary Johnson -- Foreword / by Paul Meincke -- Essay / by Neal Samors -- Essay / by Thomas O'Gorman -- Essay / by Christopher Lynch -- Interviewee index -- Far North Side. Richard Lang ; Linda Nineberg Singer ; Honorable Neil Hartigan ; Joel Werth ; Ronald Menaker ; Nancy Bild Wolf ; Joel Weisman -- North Side. Josephine Baskin Minow ; Rick Kogan ; Honorable Jesse White ; Walter Jacobson ; Leonard Amari -- Northwest Side. Bob Sirott ; Bruce DuMont ; Harriet Wilson Ellis ; Jerry Petacque ; Bob Adamowski ; Bill Jauss -- Near West Side. Anna Marie DiBuono ; Gene Mackevich -- Downtown -- West Side. Joe Mantegna ; Honorable Michael Bakalis ; Honorable Richard Elrod ; Honorable James R. Thompson ; Bruce Bachmann ; Shelley Berman ; Carmen Salvino -- South Side. Jim O'Connor ; Sheldon Patinkin ; Warner Saunders ; Dempsey Travis ; Honorable Charles Kocoras ; Erin McCann ; Georgie Ann Geyer -- Southwest Side. Tom Hynes ; Bill Gleason -- Far South Side. Norman Mark ; Estelle Gordon Baron ; Andrew McKenna -- North Suburbs. Gary Sinise ; Rich Samuels ; Bruce Wolf ; Robert Feder -- Northwest Suburbs. Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton ; Chuck Schaden -- Far South Suburbs. Tom Dreesen

"This book, which includes almost 50 interviews with Chicagoans of different backgrounds, ... who focus on their recollections of growing up in America's second largest city, also includes almost 100 black and white photographs from numerous sections of the city and suburbs"--Page 2