Then, in this twentieth century of culture, refinement and progress, he would stand outside the gates, smile in triumph and speak this,—the living, shameful, naked truth:
This is the CITY ACCURSED! This is the CITY OF THE LIVING DAMNED! This is the CITY OF MY DESIRE! This is the CITY AFTER MY OWN HEART! VICE, CRIME, CORRUPTION RULE:—MY TRIUMVIRATE!
This is THE MOST WICKED CITY IN THE WORLD!
Satan would tell the truth.
Chicago today is the most wicked city in the world.
Babylon had its vices; so, too, Alexandria. Greece and Rome struggled and died in a national moral degeneracy they had created.
Chicago has surpassed them in wickedness.
Nay, Sodom and Gomorrah, destroyed by the wrath of Heaven, were pure when compared to Chicago.
Paris and its lure of vice is tame by the side of Chicago.
There is no parallel in history. There is no adequate comparison.