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Author Garb, Margaret.

Title City of American dreams : a history of home ownership and housing reform in Chicago, 1871-1919 / Margaret Garb.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2005]
©2005

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 Moore Stacks  HD7287.82.U62 C64 2005    Available  ---
Description xv, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-251) and index.
Contents Equal rights, equal property -- Staking a claim in the industrializing city -- Health, morality, and housing -- Cleanliness and capital investments -- Selling health, independence, and home ownership -- Reforming the family home and improving neighborhoods -- Drawing the "color line" : the roots of residential segregation.
Subject Home ownership -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
Home ownership.
Illinois -- Chicago.
History.
Housing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
Housing.
ISBN 0226282090 cloth alkaline paper