"...a Denmark kind of place..."

Recent transplant Jeffrey Eugenides (The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex) clearly loves the Cape Cod Room at the Drake Hotel. Leave it to the Tribune to profile a major author in the paper's dining section.

"I view [Chicago] as a Denmark kind of place. Cold, well-run--a clean, beautiful, pristine city where you can have a nice life and bring up kids and not have a lot of stress. After living in Europe, Chicago reminds me of some of those cities...I came here in a lot of ways, probably, because of Saul Bellow's books and the Chicago that he conjured."

More accurately, Denmark without the pornography.

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