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Chicago wasn't ready for reform Series: 20TH CENTURY CHICAGO

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19990928
Author:DICK SIMPSON

The Cubs and Sox were in the World Series in 1906. Who could say it was not a significant year?

Upton Sinclair published The Jungle, which would reform the meat- packing industry. Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House opened. Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil, charged with operating a confidence game, was freed by a jury. And Chicago was ruled by the City Council of the "Grey Wolves."

Aldermen were named Grey Wolves by Lincoln Steffens, a muckraking reporter for McClure's magazine, "for the color of their hair and the rapacious cunning and greed of their nature." Steffens said the government was the "most ...

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