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

5.0

Short, but a great piece of work about how Chicago became the city it is today. As a resident of Lincoln Park and someone with a professional interest in the city's history, I'd long known the broad strokes of the story. Getting the whole sweep, beginning with Edgar Miller's artist colony in the 1930s and following through to the collapse of urban renewal in recriminations and violence (the murder of an inclusive Methodist minister and his wife deeply haunts me) is really well done.