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Introduction: Writing an Urban Biography
1: Location, Location, Location!
The French Point de Sable and the Coming of the Americans The Yankees, the Canal, and the Railroads Ethnic Diversity Lake Street That Great Street
2: Emporium of the West
Early Industry Growth Problems The Threat of War The Civil War The Wartime Economy The Industrial New Age - The New Relationship between Workers and Owners
3: The Era of Urban Chaos
A Wooden Immigrant City on the Prairie The Great Chicago Fire The Clash between Labor and Capital The Capital of Radicalism Haymarket The Loop: A Dark Vision of the Future The Levee
4: Reacting to Chaos: Pullman, the West Side, and the Loop
The West Side: The Communal Response The Elite Response: George Pullman The Middle-Class Reform Response: Jane Addams The Loop: An Architectural Response The Columbian Exposition Paradise Lost: The Pullman Strike
5: The Progressive and Not So Progressive City
The Continued Clash of Social Classes Chicago’s Progressive Politics The Progressive Accomplishment Green Spaces for the Poor and Great Plans The Problem of Housing the Poor Big Bill Thompson and the End of Progressivism
6: The Immigrant Capital and World War I
Immigrant City - World War I Poison, Hysteria, Politics, and Ethnic Conflict World War I and the Labor Movement The Great Migration 1919: Annus Mirabilis
7: Twentieth-Century Metropolis
The Attack on Immigrants The Bungalow and the New Ethnic Metropolis Black Metropolis Popular Culture The Automobile Gangland
8: Years of Crises: Depression and War
Unemployment Anton Cermak and the Birth of the Democratic Machine Kelly-Nash: A New Democratic Day The Urge to Organize: Neighborhoods The Urge to Organize: Labor World War II: Emporium of the United Nations
9: Chicago after the War: Changing Times
The Postwar Democrats The Problem of Race Englewood: Angeline Jackson’s Neighborhood Ted Swigon’s Back of the Yards: A Shifting Landscape Reaction to Change Arguing over Urban Renewal Violence: The Murder of Alvin Palmer Postwar Suburbs Deindustrialization: The Stockyards
10: Daley’s City
Building the Modern City: Public Housing and Expressways Daley’s Prime Black Chicago 1968: The Whole World Is Watching
11: Apocalypse Now” or Regeneration?
The Tragedy of Michael Bilandic Deindustrialization: Phase Two Seeds of a New Loop Jane Byrne and the Politics of Angst 1983: It’s Harold! The Second Daley Shifts in the Economy and Immigration Still the City of Immigrants - A City Transformed? Race and Class in the Global City
Conclusion: Transforming Chicago and America
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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Add Chicago: A Biography, Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a City on the Make. Carl Sandburg dubbed it the City of Big Shoulders. Upton Sinclair christened it The Jungle, while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it the Second City. At las, Chicago: A Biography to your collection on WonderClub |