"Creative Chicago: An interview Marathon was a beautifully expansive answer - or at least the beginning of one - to a question once posed by the creator of the longstanding marathon project, Hans Ulbrich Obrist: 'What would a city made and run by artists look like?' "

This book is based on a concept thought of by Hans Ulbrich Obrist which is a five hour series of conversations with artists, authors, architects and others representing Chicago's diverse creative community. The event took place during the Chicago Humanities Festival and the interviews were conducted by Obrist himself on a stage designed by artist Barbara Kasten. This was his fist interview marathon in the USA and took a multidimensional, multidisciplinary look at creativity in the city, past, present and future. Through the wide ranging series of dialogues, Creative Chicago explored the many artistic and institutional forces that have made and continue to make Chicago a creative powerhouse.