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Margaret Garb

City of American Dreams

A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919

256 pages, 15 halftones, 6 maps  6 x 9  © 2005
Series: Historical Studies of Urban America

Cloth $32.00

ISBN: 9780226282091   Published December 2005

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: Equal Rights, Equal Property
2: Staking a Claim in the Industrializing City
3: Health, Morality, and Housing
4: Cleanliness and Capital Investments
5: Selling Health, Independence, and Home Ownership
6: Reforming the Family Home and Improving Neighborhoods
7: Drawing the “Color Line”: The Roots of Residential Segregation
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Subjects



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