The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago by Daniel Kay Hertz

The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago

Daniel Kay Hertz

160 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history race mysterious slow-paced
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In the years just after World War Two, a familiar story was just beginning: once-booming cities had started to shrink. Historic neighborhoods in Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland, and Chicago were wiped off the map so that middle-class whites could fl...

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