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From Back Of The Yards To The College Classroom, Dominic Pacyga, David Gerber, Alan Kraut

Dominic Pacyga

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Polish Immigrants And Chicago's Progressive Parks: Creating Public Space In The City, Dominic Pacyga, Agnieszka Malek, Dorota Praszalowicz

Dominic Pacyga

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Digitizing Immigrant And Homeland Letters: Problems And Opportunities, Dominic Pacyga

Dominic Pacyga

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Chicago: A Biography, Dominic Pacyga

Dominic Pacyga

Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a “City on the Make.” Carl Sandburg dubbed it the “City of Big Shoulders.” Upton Sinclair christened it “The Jungle,” while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it “the Second City.”

At last there is a book for all of us, whatever we choose to call Chicago. In this magisterial biography, historian Dominic Pacyga traces the storied past of his hometown, from the explorations of Joliet and Marquette in 1673 to the new wave of urban pioneers today. The city’s great industrialists, reformers, and politicians—and, indeed, the many not-so-great and downright …

Responding To The Second Ghetto: Chicago's Joe Smith And Sin Corner, Dominic Pacyga

Dominic Pacyga

World War Two and its aftermath transformed Chicago's African American community. The Great Migration entered a second and more intense phase as black migrants flooded into Northern cities. This massive relocation of Southern blacks resulted in the expansion and reformulation of Chicago's ghettoes on both the West and South Sides of the city. The question of a response to this Second Ghetto from African Americans themselves presents itself. White politicians, cultural elites and businessmen still controlled the city and could impose their will on its neighborhoods simply redrawing ghetto boundaries to reflect the new realities of the postwar era. The …

Polish Immigrants And Chicago's Progressive Parks: Creating Public Space In The City, Dominic Pacyga

Dominic Pacyga

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Ethnic Chicago: The Development Of A Global City, Dominic Pacyga

Dominic Pacyga

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Chicago Slaughterhouse To The World, Dominic Pacyga, Paula Lee

Dominic Pacyga

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Polish Immigrants And Industrial Chicago, Dominic Pacyga

Dominic Pacyga

How did working-class immigrants from Poland create new communities in Chicago during the industrial age? This book explores the lives of immigrants in two iconic Polish neighborhoods—the Back of the Yards and South Chicago—and the stockyards and steel mills in which they made their living.

Pacyga shows how Poles forged communities on the South Side in an attempt to preserve the customs of their homeland—how through the development of churches, the building of schools, the founding of street gangs, and the opening of saloons they tried to recreate the feel of an Eastern European village. Through such institutions, Poles also …

Crossing The Boundary Between Academia And Neighborhood: Steel Mills, Stockyards, Bungalows, And The Public Historian, Dominic Pacyga

Dominic Pacyga

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The Murder Of Alvin Palmer: Polish Americans, Assimilation, Juvenile Delinquency, And Racial Violence In 1950s Chicago, Dominic Pacyga

Dominic Pacyga

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Moving On Up: Chicago's Bungalows And The American Dream, Dominic Pacyga, Charles Shanabruch

Dominic Pacyga

The Chicago Bungalow is more than a housing style indigenous to the city. It epitomizes Chicago's work ethic and its rewards for successive waves of ethnic newcomers to the city since the early 20th century. In this book, the Chicago Architecture Foundation interprets both the design and the meaning of these homes, in keeping with CAF's mission to raise awareness of Chicago's architectural legacy. After 1915, new neighborhoods appeared across the prairie. The Chicago-style bungalow came to both dominate and symbolize these areas. A one and one-half story single-family freestanding home, it included such conveniences as electricity, indoor plumbing, and …

Polka! Polka! Polka!, Dominic Pacyga

Dominic Pacyga

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Chicago's Southeast Side, Dominic Pacyga, Rod Sellers

Dominic Pacyga

Steel and the steel industry are the backbone of Chicago's southeast side, an often overlooked neighborhood with a rich ethnic heritage. Bolstered by the prosperous steel industry, the community attracted numerous, strong-willed people with a desire to work from distinct cultural backgrounds. In recent years, the vitality of the steel industry has diminished. Chicago's Southeast Side displays many rare and interesting pictures that capture the spirit of the community when the steel industry was a vibrant force. Although annexed in 1889 by the city of Chicago, the community has maintained its own identity through the years. In an attempt to …

Chicago, City Of Neighborhoods: Histories And Tours, Dominic Pacyga, Ellen Skerrett

Dominic Pacyga

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Chicago: A Historical Guide To Neighborhoods, Dominic Pacyga, Glen Holt

Dominic Pacyga

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