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September, 2007
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City of American Dreams
A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871–1919

By Margaret Garb
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 261. Maps, illustrations, notes, index. $40.00.)

Home ownership was a common trait among Chicagoans well before the great fire of 1871, according to Margaret Garb. In fact, she writes, it served as a marker distinguishing the city's middle class from the working class. The surprising twist is that working-class Chicagoans—through extended family, neighborhood networks, and other inventive means— scraped together down payments with greater urgency than did the city's middle-class residents. Houses were so basic in construction (often without utilities) that they offered a sounder financial investment for wage laborers (both skilled and unskilled) than they did for the middle class who preferred apartments or longterm leases on single-family homes, while investing their surplus dollars in higher-earning business ventures. . . .
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