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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Transmuted America is a 2003 non-fiction book by Erik Larson. Mr. Larson relishes to embroider the past. So he relentlessly fuses history and regalement to give this nonfiction book the dramatic effect of a novel, consummate with abundant cross-cutting and foreshadowing. Mundanely these might be alarming tactics, but in the case of this material they do the artifice. Mr. Larson has indicted a dynamic, enveloping book filled…

Ernest Burgess in "The Growth of the City," in which he examines Chicago and vicinity. In addition, Bruce Epperson (2007), the author of “Eminence Domain: Reassessing the Life and Public Works of Robert Moses” examines the way in which Robert Moses geared his projects for New York City and the surrounding area (p.1). However, one may find that the way in which Moses plans projects for New York City may connect to the way in which Chicago was planned. Before the formation of suburbs, the majority…

Rob Lorenson has been a professor at Bridgewater State University since 1999. Along with being an educator he is an artist and his art piece “Bridgewater Ascending” was chosen to be displayed on campus. Before being employed at BSU, Lorenson lived in Chicago, Illinois. There he recieved a MFA degree in sculpture from Northern Illiois University and before that he recieved a BFA degree in sculpture from the University of Northern Iowa. Even before school, Lorenson knew he wanted to work with…

In Twenty Years at Hull-House, Jane Addams described her mission for the Hull-House in Chicago to offer a center for educational learning and to improve the city 's conditions. The Hull-House was successful in achieving her mission by offering classes to gain domestic and educational skills and opened opportunities for young women. Although, the lack of immediate response to social problems by the government and the ethnic divide between the neighborhood and the residents of the house limited…

Here, the boys could be children. They could let their imaginations run wild and they could just take a break from the horrible life they have waiting at home. Lafeyette and Pharoah are a part of large family living in the Chicago projects. Their mother, Lajoe, has eight children; the three older ones have slowly fallen off the deep end, but the five younger have a chance to do good. Lajoe takes great pride in her children and does everything she can to raise them to be upstanding citizens and…

Sudhir Venkatesh’s Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets shows the authors journey through mysteries of Chicago’s housing projects. As a sociology grad student at the University of Chicago, Venkatesh walked into one of Chicago’s toughest housing projects, clipboard in hand, ready to ask residents about their lives. However, the answers he got were unprintable. He stuck around, became friends with a gang leader and for the next decade lived a second life at the infamous…

finger”) was cut off. If it was not for Walgreen’s injury, he would not have developed his ambitions further into the pharmacuitcal industry. After around 18 months, Walgreen left his drugstore job with a (not so positive) experience and left to Chicago for a better chance to (make…

The City of Evanston presents an interesting case study into the relationship between universities and the cities in which they reside. Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, is located in Cook County, Illinois and is the home to Northwestern University, a major research university. Northwestern’s 240-acre campus sits right outside the city’s central business district and serves more than 16,000 students. With the majority of the 8,000 undergraduate students living in on-campus housing or in the…

Barack Obama was born on August 4th, 1961 in Honolulu Hawaii. He moved to United States where he graduated from Harvard Law school. He worked as a community organizer, lawyer, and lecturer at University of Chicago Law School before starting his political career. Obama’s main cause was to promote peace among nations. He spoke a lot about a just war, and coming to agreed upon decisions without violence between nations. Being the President of the United States, it is easy to get drunk off power,…

She devoted her life to try and help the poor and unfortunate and help the troubled children of a growing Chicago to have a childhood like hers. She made many strides to improving women's equality and rights in voting. As Pleck put it Jane Addams “was one of the most distinguished of the first generation of college-educated women, rejecting marriage and motherhood…