Title: Chicago dreaming
First published: 2005
Description: Part I examines the ethos of self-making and boosterism that has defined the city since its settlement in the 1830s, and argues that these energies formed the context for hinterland migration during the nineteenth century and beyond. Part 2 highlights the emotional and cultural foraces that continued to tie many migrants to the hinterland even after their arrival in Chicago. Part 3 looks at Chicago's ethnic communities through the eyes of hinterland migrants, underscoring the cultural authority of these native-born newcomers in mediating the assimilation of foreign immigrants. Chapter 6 focuses on the work of Jane Addams and Chapter 7 considers how Chicago's multiethnic community is portrayed in Edith Wyatt's and Elia Peattie's fiction and in Carl Sandburg's poetry.
Subjects: Whites, Intellectual life, History and criticism, American literature, Migrations, Social conditions, Rural-urban migration, History, Landbevölkerung, Migration, Stadtentwicklung, American literature, history and criticism, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Chicago (ill.), history, White people
Places: Chicago (Ill.), Middle West, Illinois, Chicago
Time periods: 20th century, 1875-, 19th century
LC classification: F548.5 .S74 2005