"Kevin Coval made me understand what it is to be a poet, what it is to be an artist and what it is to serve the people."
-Chance the Rapper
"...incantatory spoken-word assailing notions of racial purity"
-New York Times
"Kevin Coval has given us a gift, a collection of heartfelt, piercing poems, stories really, about America's city."
-Alex Kotlowitz author of There Are No Children Here
"This vibrant, dynamic collection of vignettes exposes the naked truth of our fair city."
-Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teacher's Union
"The spine of this book of the People's History of Chicago is the people's resistance and struggle for justice and a fair shake. Coval is in the Chicago Tradition - fire, earth, and endless blues."
-Angela Jackson, author of Where I Must Go, winner of the American Book Award
