People still pouring into Chicago from all over the world, believing they can find something to do here, find food and shelter for their families here. They have always come here, to our City, a beacon of crazy hope.
Florence Kelley, one of Chicago's best-kept secrets, was the first woman factory inspector in the United States, appointed in Illinois by Governor John Peter Altgeld in 1893. Here she reaches out to those of us in the present, drawing attention to those things that have changed, those which have not, and what we can do to continue her work of making a better present and future.
People still pouring into Chicago from all over the world, believing they can find something to do here, find food and shelter for their families here. They have always come here, to our City, a beacon of crazy hope.
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