Ill.)

The Last Tower

by Ben Austen,

The decline and fall of public housing

Ticket to the Fair

Brookfield’s Merry Pranksters

From a list of prank phone calls compiled on April Fools’ Day by the receptionist at the Brookfield Zoo, in Brookfield, Illinois. The zoo estimates that it receives 2,000 prank…

Miami Beach and Chicago

by Norman Mailer,

What You Don’t Know Won’t Hurt You

by Richard Wright,

A belated report on the progress of medical research

Racketeers and Organized Labor

by Louis Adamic,

Editor’s Easy Chair

by Harper’s Staff,

Ill.)

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