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coping with everyday life, 1837-1920

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An edition of Challenging Chicago (1998)

Challenging Chicago

coping with everyday life, 1837-1920

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Risky city. This was Chicago during an unprecedented period of rapid growth: a burgeoning metropolis that quickly became a "concentration of risk." The many thousands of immigrants and rural Americans who streamed into the city during these years found it far more congested, crowded, dangerous, unpleasant, immoral, and unhealthy than they had anticipated.

Challenging Chicago reveals the survival strategies to which the many people who flocked to the city resorted, especially those of the lower and middle classes for whom urban life was a new experience.

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University of Illinois Press
Language
English
Pages
430

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Subjects

Social life and customs, Sociology, Urban, Social mobility, Chicago, Economic conditions, Social conditions, Urban Sociology, City and town life, Economic history, Manners and customs, Dagelijks leven, Alltag, Geschichte 1837-1920, Social mobility, united states, Chicago (ill.), social life and customs, Chicago (ill.), social conditions, Chicago (ill.), economic conditions

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Chicago, Chicago (Ill.), Illinois

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Challenging Chicago: coping with everyday life, 1837-1920
1998, University of Illinois Press
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Table of Contents

Coping with a new sense of place
Counting minutes and miles
Housing strategies
Living in the inherited city
The risky business of food
Eating out
Reducing risk and taking control
Amusements, crowds, and morals
Chicago is work
Getting ahead on your own
Time, risk, and family finances
The institutional trap
Conclusion: Coping with urban life.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-411) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
307.76/09773/11
Library of Congress
HN80.C5 D85 1998, HN80.C5D85 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 430 p. :
Number of pages
430

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OL697691M
Internet Archive
challengingchica0000duis
ISBN 10
0252023943
LCCN
97045252
OCLC/WorldCat
37820146
Library Thing
856408
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
2012011

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