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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37820146 Title: Challenging Chicago : coping with everyday life, 1837-1920 Author: Perry Duis Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1998. ISBN/ISSN: 0252023943 9780252023941 0252074157 9780252074158 OCLC:37820146

  
  

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Challenging Chicago : coping with everyday life, 1837-1920

Author:	Perry Duis
Publisher:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1998.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	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.  Read more...
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Subjects	Sociology, Urban -- Illinois -- Chicago. City and town life -- Illinois -- Chicago. Social mobility -- Illinois -- Chicago. View all subjects
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