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"What Dante Missed,"
The Vice Bondage of a Great City, 1912
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Robert Harland's
The Vice Bondage of a Great City
(1912) typified early twentieth-century portrayals of Chicago as riddled with vice. The book's refrain, "Chicago is the Wickedest City in the World," punctuates references to the specific temptations that await the innocent visitor.
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