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Title/Opening Credits
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Author's Note
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Introduction: Structuring Inequality in Chicagoland
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Part I: Forging Metropolitan Inequality
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Chapter 1: The State Policies That Define Localism, Public Schools, and Fragmentation in the Suburbs
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Chapter 1 (continued)
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Chapter 2: Chicago’s Postwar Development Agenda: Using Schools, Land-Use Tools, and Public Subsidies to Protect White Property
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Chapter 2 (continued)
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Part II: Fighting over Metropolitan Inequality
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Chapter 3: Fighting Chicago School Segregation: The Battles to Define Northern Segregation, Government Responsibility, and Public Priorities
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Chapter 3 (continued)
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Chapter 4: Varieties of School Desegregation: Defining State Responsibility and Protecting White Interests in the Fragmented Suburbs
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Chapter 4 (continued)
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Chapter 5: The Fight to Open the Suburbs: Fair- and Affordable-Housing Advocacy and the Suburban Defense of Metropolitan Inequality
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Chapter 5 (continued)
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Chapter 6: School-Finance and Property-Tax Reform: Trying to Expand State Fiscal Responsibility and Equity in Local Finance
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Chapter 6 (continued)
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Part III: Forgetting Metropolitan Inequality
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Chapter 7: The Policy Origins and Effects of Fiscal Crisis: Taxation, Austerity, and Business-First Economic Development in Chicagoland
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Chapter 7 (continued)
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Chapter 8: From Equity to Measurable Standards: Reshaping Public Policy and Forgetting Inequality in a Neoliberal Age
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Chapter 8 (continued)
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Conclusion: What Does This History Mean for the Present and the Future?
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Closing Notes
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