Tales From Progress City

A behind-the-scenes look at Jason Pettus' experimental literary project, chronicling 200 years of a fictitious US Midwestern metropolis

A more detailed look at one of the neighborhoods in my fictitious US Midwestern city, one that combines many of my favorite things—real-life Chicago’s Wicker Park in the early 1990s, the cyberpunks of the late 1980s, the beginning of the Dot Com age, and the messy history of urban gentrification

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The idea behind Progress has existed in one form or another for 25 years now. For my first in-depth look at this blog at a more focused part of the city's history, I thought I'd take on the concept that's germinated the longest, the red-light district Haven and the artistic neighborhood next door

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