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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.2 | The History Cooperative

Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920 . By Perry R. Duis. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xiv, 430 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-252-02394-3.)

Anyone who has ever worked on Chicago history has been grateful for Perry R. Duis. His works have been successful and important, ground-level views of everyday life during the first hundred years of Chicago history. The depth of his local knowledge and the range of the sources he draws upon to support his work are virtually unsurpassed. And his newest work, Challenging Chicago, supports this reputation. Challenging Chicago describes the everyday challenges that citizens of this burgeoning city coped with in getting through the day: traveling into and throughout the city, using the street and quasi-public spaces, keeping fit, finding housing and finding work, enjoying some leisure activity, finding food and eating out, staying financially solvent, and even improving oneself. Organized topically, the picturesque vignettes constituting each chapter present these features of city life as both prosaic and profound. Each chapter is concluded with a postscript that provides an interesting contemporary insight into the historical material discussed. . . .

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