Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920

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.

• | By (Author): Perry Duis
• | Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 29, 2006
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 448 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0252074157
• | ISBN-13: 9780252074158