Perry R. Duis
Contributor
Website : Perry R. Duis at UIC
Professor Emeritus of History, University of Illinois at Chicago. Author of Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920; and others.
Primary Contributions (1)
Chicago, city, seat of Cook county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. With a population hovering near three million, Chicago is the state’s largest and the country’s third most populous city. In addition, the greater Chicagoland area—which encompasses northeastern Illinois and extends into southeastern…
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Publications (1)
Challenging Chicago Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920 (2006)
During an unprecedented period of rapid growth, the burgeoning metropolis of Chicago quickly became a "concentration of risk": far more congested, dangerous, unpleasant, immoral, and unhealthy than newcomers had anticipated. Through vignettes and real-life stories, Challenging Chicago reveals lower- and middle-class peoples' strategies for coping with technology, crowding, anonymity, and other urban ills.
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Follow along and encounter some of Chicago's most infamous citizens--the loathed Traction...