By 1994, Belgrade had claimed the title of ‘the Chicago of the Balkans.’ Harking back to the stereotype of a crime-ridden Chicago of the 1920s, some commentators had accurately depicted the essence of contemporary day-to-day life in the Balkan capital situated on the banks of the Sava and Danube rivers
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