Chicago Doesn't Care.

The article discusses social reforms in Chicago, Illinois. The reform movement in Chicago, Illinois, consists of serious groups of little thinkers sitting around and telling each other how New York did it. All the movement lacks is leaders, followers, money, forums, an organization, and a press. With the U.S. Democrats split and the U.S. Republicans and the Communists off the ballot, a minority candidate on a reform ticket might win. The city has never been riper for it. But statesman Harold Ickes is the only Chicagoan with sufficient prestige to tackle the job, and Ickes can't convince himself that he ought to leave the Cabinet and fly to ills he does not understand.