"1929 — Chicago's cultural hotspot is a place called The Drake Hotel. The Drake was a residential hotel for the elite, part of the , the greatest concentration of wealth in Chicago. The Gold Coast was cheek by jowl with a slum, Little Hell, the greatest concentration of poverty in Chicago."
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