Chicago's Inner Districts

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This essay explores inner city life in Chicago from the years 1900 to 1930. In this article the writer discusses various pressures on American cities at the beginning of the twentieth century. Further, the writer examines how the city of Chicago was shaped and grew out of the poor overcrowded neighborhoods.

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"At the turn of the century American cities were burgeoning under the pressures brought on by rapid immigration, urbanization, and industrialization. As thousands of immigrants flooded cities, none had the infrastructure to see the newcomers properly settled or evenly dispersed throughout densely populated neighborhoods. Pockets of decay grew out of the poorly settled neighborhoods--overcrowded, teeming with garbage and disease, crime, and poverty--divided by language, class, and ethnicity. It was these neighborhoods, however, that shaped and molded a city's fluctuating identity. This trend was exemplified in Chicago. By the end of the nineteenth-century Chicago could boast being the mightiest city in mid-America."

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