"Chicago" is a model of urban redevelopment. The musical, based on a 1926 play by Maurine Dallas Watkins (based in turn on actual sordid events that occurred in Chicago while Watkins was a journalist) was a modest hit in 1975. Its score " music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb " gave us the showtune...
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:45AM on May 18, 2018