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Opening Credits
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Dedication
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Introduction: Writing an Urban Biography
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Chapter 1: Location, Location, Location!
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The French
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Point de Sable and the Coming of the Americans
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The Yankees, the Canal, and the Railroads
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Ethnic Diversity
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Lake Street That Great Street
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Chapter 2: Emporium of the West
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Early Industry
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Growth Problems
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The Threat of War
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The Civil War
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The Wartime Economy
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The Industrial New Age
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The New Relationship between Workers and Owners
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Chapter 3: The Era of Urban Chaos
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A Wooden Immigrant City on the Prairie
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The Great Chicago Fire
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The Clash between Labor and Capital
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The Capital of Radicalism
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Haymarket
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The Loop: A Dark Vision of the Future
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The Levee
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Chapter 4: Reacting to Chaos: Pullman, the West Side, and the Loop
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The West Side: The Communal Response
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The Elite Response: George Pullman
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The Middle-Class Reform Response: Jane Addams
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The Loop: An Architectural Response
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The Columbian Exposition
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Paradise Lost: The Pullman Strike
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Chapter 5: The Progressive and Not So Progressive City
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The Continued Clash of Social Classes
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Chicago’s Progressive Politics
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The Progressive Accomplishment
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Green Spaces for the Poor and Great Plans
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The Problem of Housing the Poor
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Big Bill Thompson and the End of Progressivism
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Chapter 6: The Immigrant Capital and World War I
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Immigrant City
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World War I
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Poison, Hysteria, Politics, and Ethnic Conflict
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World War I and the Labor Movement
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The Great Migration
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1919: Annus Mirabilis
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Chapter 7: Twentieth-Century Metropolis
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The Attack on Immigrants
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The Bungalow and the New Ethnic Metropolis
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Black Metropolis
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Popular Culture
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The Automobile
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Gangland
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Chapter 8: Years of Crises: Depression and War
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Unemployment
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Anton Cermak and the Birth of the Democratic Machine
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Kelly-Nash: A New Democratic Day
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The Urge to Organize: Neighborhoods
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The Urge to Organize: Labor
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World War II: Emporium of the United Nations
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Chapter 9: Chicago after the War: Changing Times
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The Postwar Democrats
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The Problem of Race
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Englewood: Angeline Jackson’s Neighborhood
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Ted Swigon’s Back of the Yards: A Shifting Landscape
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Reaction to Change
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Arguing over Urban Renewal
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Violence: The Murder of Alvin Palmer
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Postwar Suburbs
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Deindustrialization: The Stockyards
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Chapter 10: Daley’s City
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Building the Modern City: Public Housing and Expressways
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Daley’s Prime
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Black Chicago
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1968: The Whole World Is Watching
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Chapter 11: Apocalypse “Now” or Regeneration?
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The Tragedy of Michael Bilandic
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Deindustrialization: Phase Two
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Seeds of a New Loop
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Jane Byrne and the Politics of Angst
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1983: It’s Harold!
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The Second Daley
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Shifts in the Economy and Immigration
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Still the City of Immigrants
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A City Transformed? Race and Class in the Global City
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Conclusion: Transforming Chicago and America
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Closing Notes
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