The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age

June 6, 2013 2:30 PM

"The Chicagoan, published from 1926 to 1935 in Chicago, was explicitly modeled on the New Yorker in both its graphic design and editorial content. The magazine aimed to portray the city as a cultural hub and counter its image as a place of violence and vice. It was first issued biweekly and then, in a larger format, monthly, ceasing publication in the midst of the Depression. The magazine received little national attention during its lifetime and few copies survive. This digital collection reproduces the near-complete run in the University of Chicago Library with issues supplied from other collections where possible."
posted by MCMikeNamara (6 comments total)

I was just having a conversation, in Chicago, about what to call people who live in Chicago.. Chicagoites? Chicagese? Chicagolenos?

Chicagoan it is!
posted by The Whelk at 2:43 PM on June 6, 2013

I blame the magazine's tepid acceptance on the lack of Dorothy Parker.
posted by GenjiandProust at 2:44 PM on June 6, 2013 [1 favorite]

Uh, it's back doncha know.
posted by timsteil at 2:52 PM on June 6, 2013 [2 favorites]

timsteil: "Uh, it's back doncha know."

For some reason, I left that off the post, and I can't for the life of me figure out why.

"He didn't seem drunk when he ordered it ma'am."
posted by MCMikeNamara at 2:54 PM on June 6, 2013

I was just having a conversation, in Chicago, about what to call people who live in Chicago.. Chicagoites? Chicagese? Chicagolenos?

I believe we settled on 'Buellers.'
posted by shakespeherian at 3:19 PM on June 6, 2013 [5 favorites]

The back end of this interface is archive.org, as it should be.
posted by jscott at 3:48 PM on June 6, 2013