The Battle of Lincoln Park

“A brief, cogent analysis of gentrification in Chicago . . . An incisive and useful narrative on the puzzle of urban development” ( Kirkus ). In the years after World War II, a movement began to bring the middle class back to the Lincoln Park neighborhood on Chicago's North Side. In place of the old, poorly maintained apartments and dense streetscapes, “rehabbers” imagined a new kind of neighborhood—a modern community that combined the convenience, diversity, and character of a historic urban qu