Challenging Chicago : coping with everyday life, 1837-1920
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
Congress
xiii, 430 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780252023941, 9780252074158, 0252023943, 0252074157
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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