Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote his first adventure and science fiction stories while living in Chicago and Oak Park, creating the popular character of Tarzan.
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Ernest Hemingway's Youth in Oak Park and Chicago
Daniel HautzingerHemingway was born in Oak Park but left as soon as he could and began framing himself in opposition to what he considered the middle-class values of the suburb. A sojourn in Chicago helped introduce him to a literary world and sent him on his way to Paris.
