Bill Savage is associate professor of instruction in the English Department at Northwestern University, where he teaches the course “The Chicago Way”: Urban Spaces and American Values. He researches and writes about how Americans construct identity in a dynamic interplay between groups and individuals in a variety of city spaces and places, from parks and beaches to factory floors and saloons. He has coedited two critical editions of works by Chicago writer Nelson Algren, the fiftieth anniversary critical edition of The Man with the Golden Arm, and the annotated Chicago: City on the Make.