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1  Early in the fall Jurgis set out for Chicago again.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
2  So Jurgis turned and followed, and toward the end of the morning he began to see Chicago again.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
3  It was in the stockyards that Jonas' friend had gotten rich, and so to Chicago the party was bound.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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4  Sooner or later, by this plan, they would have all the floating labor of Chicago trained to do their work.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
5  They knew that one word, Chicago and that was all they needed to know, at least, until they reached the city.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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6  It was the biggest clubhouse, and the biggest club, in all Chicago; and they had prizefights every now and then, and cockfights and even dogfights.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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7  A man cannot go about in midwinter in Chicago with no overcoat and not pay for it, and Jurgis had to walk or ride five or six miles back and forth to his work.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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8  Some time ago, Elzbieta was told, a Chicago billionaire had paid a fortune to bring a great European surgeon over to cure his little daughter of the same disease from which Kristoforas had suffered.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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9  The end of it was that the young lady sent them a basket of things to eat, and left a letter that Jurgis was to take to a gentleman who was superintendent in one of the mills of the great steelworks in South Chicago.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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10  It was for such pleasures as these that he spent his money; and such was his life during the six weeks and a half that he toiled for the merchants of Chicago, to enable them to break the grip of their teamsters' union.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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11  Anywhere else in Chicago he would have stood a good chance of being arrested; but the policemen in Packingtown were apparently used to these informal movings, and contented themselves with a cursory examination now and then.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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12  "Bubbly Creek" is an arm of the Chicago River, and forms the southern boundary of the yards: all the drainage of the square mile of packing houses empties into it, so that it is really a great open sewer a hundred or two feet wide.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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13  That was why he had been picked out on one important occasion; for Jurgis had stood outside of Brown and Company's "Central Time Station" not more than half an hour, the second day of his arrival in Chicago, before he had been beckoned by one of the bosses.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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14  The City Council had passed a quiet and innocent little bill allowing a company to construct telephone conduits under the city streets; and upon the strength of this, a great corporation had proceeded to tunnel all Chicago with a system of railway freight-subways.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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15  It was one of the laws of the veselija that no one goes hungry; and, while a rule made in the forests of Lithuania is hard to apply in the stockyards district of Chicago, with its quarter of a million inhabitants, still they did their best, and the children who ran in from the street, and even the dogs, went out again happier.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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16  The people of Chicago saw the government inspectors in Packingtown, and they all took that to mean that they were protected from diseased meat; they did not understand that these hundred and sixty-three inspectors had been appointed at the request of the packers, and that they were paid by the United States government to certify that all the diseased meat was kept in the state.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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17  Then, tumbled out of the cars without ceremony, they were no better off than before; they stood staring down the vista of Dearborn Street, with its big black buildings towering in the distance, unable to realize that they had arrived, and why, when they said "Chicago," people no longer pointed in some direction, but instead looked perplexed, or laughed, or went on without paying any attention.
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