During an unprecedented period of rapid growth, the burgeoning metropolis of Chicago quickly became a concentration of risk. Through vignettes and real-life stories, this work reveals lower and middle-class peoples' strategi...

Buy Now From Amazon

During an unprecedented period of rapid growth, the burgeoning metropolis of Chicago quickly became a concentration of risk. Through vignettes and real-life stories, this work reveals lower and middle-class peoples' strategies for coping with technology, crowding, anonymity, and other urban ills.

Similar Products

Chicago: A BiographyRichard J. Daley: Politics, Race, and the Governing of Chicago (Inter-American Dialogue Book)There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other AmericaCity of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of AmericaThe World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893Slaughterhouse: Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made