About this ebook
“What has happened to Chicago? That’s Matt Rosenberg’s question, and mine as well. His loving tribute to our hometown is a moving, sensitive, humane, and trenchant critical assessment. Read it and weep.” —Glenn C. Loury, Professor of the Social Sciences at Brown University, and author of One By One from the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America
“Matt Rosenberg writes about the Chicago Way in the Chicago Style of a Mike Royko…. It’s a coherent, honest, and balanced tour of the city’s perpetual corruption, unsafe streets, gawd-awful schools, ghost neighborhoods, financial legerdemain, and the false Unified Theory of Systemic Racism that cloaks it all. Yet, What Next, Chicago? is no helpless, hopeless wail, but a powerful and useful roadmap for a rebirth of a once-great city, based on the voices of Black families and others who don’t need academia to know what to do. Must reading for Chicago lovers.” —Dennis Byrne, former Chicago Sun-Times editorial board member
About the author
Matt Rosenberg has battled the Chicago Democratic Machine, advocated for transportation infrastructure, a better business climate, and government transparency, and led online news start-ups. He worked on the Pulitzer-finalist Mirage tavern undercover investigation in Chicago, was a newspaper reporter and columnist in suburban Chicago, a Seattle-Times op-ed columnist, and a senior editor for Mozilla’s Open Standard. His work has also appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Weekly Standard, National Review Online, and City Journal. His email is matt@chicagoskooled.com.
