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Mother Chicago

Mother Chicago


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"I want you to go out and buy Mother Chicago. It is one of the most revelatory, provocative, frightening books I've ever read about Chicago." --Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune

Chicago history as told by the relics of her forgotten people and places. The observed made real to exorcise the hauntings of do-gooders and social engineers.

Chicago was a city of wanderers, truants, and delinquents. It was home to the largest tuberculosis sanitarium in the country, as well as a dizzying number of public and private institutions for wayward children, indigents, the mad, and the poor. Chicago's socially progressive institutions were influential and respected as saviors of the immigrants and "lower classes." Yet, the savage race riots of 1919 laid bare the eugenic truth of an ongoing, second Civil War operating as the Northern status quo.

Mother Chicago is the story of three of these institutions - an obscure juvenile experiment called the Chicago Parental School, the great Municipal Sanitarium, and the amalgam of poor house, asylum, and cemetery that occupied the far northern boundaries of the City. This sector of quarantine and detention built on stolen lands acted as a limiter on the production of dreams and an orphan zone for people cast adrift by societal decree. Outside its walls, City power worked in ways both mysterious and transparent while the land harbored peculiar hallucinations that still must be banished.

As the City grew larger, these institutions became fissures in the streets and the transport lines, odd reminders of the Gilded Age, which had made them. Mother Chicago tells the story of the corporeal specters used against the working class: redlining, property speculation, racism, and collateralized debt. Like the game of snakes and ladders, the City lays her traps for the unlucky on a numbered grid -- easy to navigate yet impossible to escape.

Billheimer turns a life-long obsession with the ephemera of Chicago history to tell the City's story through the relics of her forgotten places.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781627311090
  • Publisher: Feral House
  • Publisher Imprint: Feral House
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 367 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1627311092
  • Publisher Date: 18 May 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Truant Dreams and Specters Over the Gilded Age
  • Width: 150 mm


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