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  Title

  Challenging Chicago : coping with everyday life, 1837-1920

  Author

  Duis, Perry, 1943-  

  Publisher:

  University of Illinois Press,

  Pub date:

  c1998.

  Pages:

  xiii, 430 p. :

  ISBN:

  0252023943

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    Type/Location	Call Number	Copies	Format
    Adult: Non-fiction	977.311 DUI	1	Book

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  Challenging Chicago : coping with everyday life, 1837-1920
  Duis, Perry, 1943-
  
  
  

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  Personal Author:

  Duis, Perry, 1943-

  Title:

  Challenging Chicago : coping with everyday life, 1837-1920 / Perry R. Duis.

  Publication info:

  Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1998.

  Physical description:

  xiii, 430 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

  Contents:

  Coping with a new sense of place -- Counting minutes and miles -- Housing strategies -- Living in the inherited city -- The risky business of food -- Eating out -- Reducing risk and taking control -- Amusements, crowds, and morals -- Chicago is work -- Getting ahead on your own -- Time, risk, and family finances -- The institutional trap -- Conclusion: Coping with urban life.

  Subject term:

  Sociology, Urban--Illinois--Chicago.

  Subject term:

  City and town life--Illinois--Chicago.

  Subject term:

  Social mobility--Illinois--Chicago.

  Geographic term:

  Chicago (Ill.)--Social life and customs.

  Geographic term:

  Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions.

  Geographic term:

  Chicago (Ill.)--Economic conditions.

  key:

  ocm37820146

  ISBN:

  0252023943 (acid-free paper)