For almost 30 years, Herma Clark wrote the Tribune’s popular Sunday column “When Chicago Was Young,” giving readers a glimpse of what life was like in Chicago at the end of the 19th century. She did this through the artifice of letters written by a fictitious Chicagoan named Martha Freeman Esmond to her friend Julia Boyd in New York. The weekly letters, which the Tribune began publishing in .
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