Mother Chicago: Truant Dreams and Specters Over the Gilded Age, Paperback/Martin Billheimer - Feral House

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Chicago history as told by the relics of her forgotten people and places.
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..
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.
Mother Chicago tells the story of the corporeal Specters used against the working class: redlining, property speculation, racism, and collateralized debt.
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.
Outside its walls, City power worked in ways both mysterious and transparent while the land harbored peculiar hallucinations that still must be banished.
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.
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.
Yet, the savage race riots of 1919 laid bare the eugenic truth of an ongoing, second Civil War operating as the Northern status quo.
Chicago\'s socially progressive institutions were influential and respected as saviors of the immigrants and lower classes.
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 was a city of wanderers, truants, and delinquents.
The observed made real to exorcise the hauntings of do-gooders and social engineers.
Chicago history as told by the relics of her forgotten people and places