He
weeps, he insults, he builds lavish projects, and Mayor Roger Claar
sees in his own journey—from chubby outsider to powerful Republican—a
parallel to the booming emergence of his town.
“Our House,” Chicago Reader
That ugly green house on the corner never seemed like much more than
an eyesore until the author discovered it’s one of the five oldest
houses in Chicago. It survived the Great Chicago Fire, but can it
survive the local developer who wants to tear it down to build
condominiums on the site?