Rector's

> On this particular evening he dined at ‘Rector’s,’ a restaurant of some local fame, which occupied a basement at Clark and Monroe Streets. [Rector’s](https://rwcn-idwiki-2.restaurantwarecollectors.com/content/rectors-chicago-2) was a noted Chicago restaurant at Clark and Monroe. In *[Sister Carrie](https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5267/pg5267-images.html)*, Dreiser inserts it at a crucial psychological pitch: Hurstwood is moving through the city’s pleasures, self-regard, and temptations. The phrase “of some local fame” is characteristically Dreiserian—half advertisement, half diagnosis. The restaurant helps him register Chicago as a commercial theater in which desire is always attached to a visible place and price.

Chicago, Illinois, United States