Importance of Chicago, IL

Alice Goodwin grows up in Chicago with Aunt Kate. On Fridays, they go to Ida Noyes Hall in Hyde Park for international folk dancing. It is their form of church and communion. Most of the males have spent too much time in the labs at the University of Chicago. After being acquitted of child molestation charges, Alice and her family move to Chicago, where her husband Howard gets a job in the zoo, her children attend private school, and they live within sight of Wrigley Field.