Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920 by Perry Duis

Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920

Perry Duis

448 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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 ...

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