The Gold Coast and the Slum: Sociological Study of Chicago's by Harvey Warren Zorbaugh
By Harvey Warren Zorbaugh
"This is a booklet approximately Chicago. it's also, and for that very cause, a ebook approximately another American urban which has lived lengthy sufficient and grown big enough to event the transformation of neighborhoods and the touch of cultures and the stress among sorts of person and neighborhood habit. . . . here's a form of sociological research that is both marked by way of human curiosity and medical method."—Christian Century
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One has but to walk the streets of the Near North Side to sense the cultural isolation beneath these contrasts. Indeed, the color and picturesqueness of the city exists in the intimations of what lies behind the superficial contrasts of its life. How various are the thoughts of the individuals who throng up Michigan Avenue from the Loop at the close of the day-artists, shop girls, immigrants, inventors, men of affairs, women of fashion, waitresses, clerks, entertainers. How many are their vocational interests; how different are their ambitions.
The play parks were the scenes of many a "battle" when the Irish boys would attempt to run out the Italian, and alley garbage cans were stripped of their covers which served as shields in these encounters. As the Italians continued to penetrate the neighborhood, how' The Michigan Boulevard link bridge was not erected until 1918, and it was only shortly before that the Franklin-Orleans bridge was built. "The Rush Street bridge carried 77 per cent of all the commercial vehicles entering the Loop district from the North side of the city.
See McMichael and Bingham, City Growth and Land Values, p. 92. AN AREA IN TRANSITION 43 does not require trackage, such as printing plants. There is already a movement of printing plants in this direction, and many small manufacturing plants and large storage houses and garages have recently been built in this district. Until now industry has taken over the slum as far north as Chicago Avenue, and is yearly pushing eastward into the slum from the river. The Sicilian population is slowly giving ground, and the old buildings in the district are rapidly deteriorating.