Anyone, who was born and raised in Chicago during the hurly burly days of that city’s economic and technical growth, which was highlighted with its prosporous residential areas and the less spiffy, even gritty, tenement rows and slums already has a working-knowledge glimpse of Lowell’s successes and social failures, which make the town a real-life learning adventure for any and all self-professed, secret sociologists and observers of the human dilemma. One does not need to visit Herculaneum‘s ashen ruins to grasp Life’s poignant message that it can be a pumpy road, indeed.
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