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Episode 8 of “The Last Dance” — ESPN’s 10-part documentary on the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls — covered everything from Michael Jordan’s two-word “I’m back…

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Seven decades ago, Chicagoans were two years into a war that, while still looking like it could go either way, already had changed life dramatically. Women by the droves went to work in defense plants. Consumer goods were scarce and rationed, so many people bought war bonds instead. Even children got into the war effort, buying 25-cent savings stamps, and bringing paper and kitchen fat to school during scrap drives. Families waited fearfully for news of loved ones overseas. But first…

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Chicago once was celebrated in hobo camps coast-to-coast as a good place to hole up for the winter, especially along a strip of West Madison Street called Skid Row, a 12-block stretch of flophouses, gin joints and battered dreams. Hobos, bums, and tramps were the names given to the homeless, the jobless and the hopeless in the early part of the 20th century. According to the 1923 book "The Hobo," "There are three types of the genus vagrant: the hobo, the tramp, and the bum. The hobo works…

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