Block by block : neighborhoods and public policy on Chicago's West Side / Amanda I. Seligman.
Author: Seligman, Amanda I.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005.
ISBN: 0226746631 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226746658 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description: xiii, 301 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Series: Historical studies of urban America
Subject: Urban policy Illinois Chicago History 20th century.
African Americans Illinois Chicago Social conditions 20th century.
Whites Illinois Chicago Migrations 20th century.
Whites Illinois Chicago Social conditions 20th century.
African Americans Housing Illinois Chicago History 20th century.
Whites Housing Illinois Chicago History 20th century.
City and town life Illinois Chicago History 20th century.
Suburban life Illinois Chicago History 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) Race relations History 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions 20th century.
Notes: Includes index.
Contents: Introduction : block by block -- Chicago's West Side -- Housing codes -- Conservation and urban renewal -- A Chicago campus for the University of Illinois -- Public schools -- Blockbusting -- Keeping African Americans out -- Keeping whites in -- Epilogue : reconsidering white flight.