Globocity.(Globocity)

Openly crying out to the world

Well, up to a point

CHICAGO'S claim to have cracked the problem of post-industrialisation rests on something more than the development of entertainment and "knowledge" industries: it is now a "global city", say a variety of onlookers. They include not just boosters but businessmen, analysts and such academics as Saskia Sassen, of both the University of Chicago and the London School of Economics, and author of "The Global City".

Some of the evidence seems dubious. Over a fifth of Chicagoans are immigrants--but ...

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