Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780252023941 (0252023943)
Publish date: July 1st 1998
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
I read this while I lived in Chicago, and enjoyed it enormously. I couldn't stop regaling my acquaintances with tidbits of information, such as "Did you know that at the beginning of the century, when house-owners wanted to move, they would jack their house off its foundations and take it with them,...