Bellow, Saul. "Something to Remember Me By." Something to Remember Me By: Three Tales by Saul Bellow. New York: Viking, 1991.
It was while reading this short story by Saul Bellow that I first got the idea to create this website. In it, Bellow depicts the integral importance of neighborhoods to Chicago.
Dybek, Stuart. "The Wake." Childhood and Other Neighborhoods. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Stuart Dybek has a series of short stories in this collection, which deals primarily with Polish immigrant neighborhoods, treated with a magical realism style. I used the story "The Wake," which portrays the cultural crossover that occurs when one ethnic group begins to move into another group's former neighborhood.
Frazier, Edward Franklin. The Negro Family in Chicago. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1932.
This book, part of the University of Chicago sociological series looks at the social conditions of African-Americans living in Chicago. It does not deal with any current issues, as it was written over fifty years ago, but it very useful for providing a historical background. Holli, Melvin G. and Peter d'A. Jones. Ethnic Chicago, A Multicultural Portrait. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995. pg 606.
In this collection the history of different ethnicity groups in Chicago is traced, from French and the Native Americans in the 1700's to Koreans in the 1990's. It ends with another series of essays; these present a series of common topics, such as sports, religion, and politics.
"Humboldt Park Boathouse Pavilion." No date. Online image. Chicago Landmarks. 18 Apr. 2006. <http://www.ci.chi.il.us/landmarks/H/HumboldtParkBoathouse.html>.
On this website it is possible to find a number of images of historical Chicago landmarks. In addition they provide historical information about the landmark, such as address, date built and the architects.
Sampson, Robert J. and Dawn Jeglum Barusch. "Legal Cynicism and (subcultural?) Tolerance of Deviance: The Neighborhood Context of Racial Differences." Law & Society Review. Vol. 32, No. 4. (1998). pg 777-804.
In this paper Sampson and Baruch discuss the neighborhood and racial differences between tolerance for forms of deviance, legal cynicism and dissatisfaction with the belief. They found that contrary to popular belief, Latino and Black neighborhoods actually have a lower tolerance for internal deviance than white neighborhoods.
Wright, Richard A. Native Son. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993.
This Richard Wright novel was considered groundbreaking as a galvanizing force to create awareness of the segregation and discrimination taking place against blacks, even in the north, where such actions were considered to have already been dealt with.
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