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
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