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04401aam a2200469 i 4500 001 C1CC4DF0B81211E9A4E5754297128E48 003 SILO 005 20190806010914 008 181023t20192019ilub b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018050985 020 $a 022662403X 020 $a 9780226624037 035 $a (OCoLC)1051683681 040 $a PUL $b eng $e rda $c PUL $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-il 050 00 $a F548.68.S7 $b R67 2019 082 00 $a 977.3/11 $2 23 100 1 $a Rotella, Carlo, $d 1964- $e author. 245 14 $a The world is always coming to an end : $b pulling together and apart in a Chicago neighborhood / $c Carlo Rotella. 264 1 $a Chicago ; $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2019. 300 $a 284 pages : $b map ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Chicago visions and revisions 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t Conclusion: 69th and Euclid to 71st and Oglesby. $g Part II. Container. $t A strange sense of community -- $t Equipment for living: history -- $t Something for everybody -- $t Equipment for living: pulp -- $t The divide -- $t Equipment for living: ball -- $g Part II. Container. $t The lay of the land -- $t Equipment for living: purpose -- $t Limited liability -- $t Equipment for living: music -- $t Lost cities -- $t Conclusion: 69th and Euclid to 71st and Oglesby. 520 $a "A close look at an urban neighborhood in Chicago, South Shore, and the author's own relationship to that neighborhood from living there as a child and studying it as an adult."--Provied by publisher. 520 $a An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day-and unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But it's also people-the people who make it their home, some eagerly, others grudgingly. A neighborhood can thrive or it can decline, and neighbors move in and move out. Sometimes they stay but withdraw behind fences and burglar alarms. If a neighborhood becomes no longer a place of sociability and street life, but of privacy indoors and fearful distrust outdoors, is it still a neighborhood? In the late 1960s and 1970s Carlo Rotella grew up in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood-a place of neat bungalow blocks and desolate commercial strips, and sharp, sometimes painful social contrasts. In the decades since, the hollowing out of the middle class has left residents confronting-or avoiding-each other across an expanding gap that makes it ever harder for them to recognize each other as neighbors. Rotella tells the stories that reveal how that happened-stories of deindustrialization and street life; stories of gorgeous apartments with vistas onto Lake Michigan and of Section 8 housing vouchers held by the poor. At every turn, South Shore is a study in contrasts, shaped and reshaped over the past half-century by individual stories and larger waves of change that make it an exemplar of many American urban neighborhoods. Talking with current and former residents and looking carefully at the interactions of race and class, persistence and change, Rotella explores the tension between residents' deep investment of feeling and resources in the physical landscape of South Shore and their hesitation to make a similar commitment to the community of neighbors living there. Blending journalism, memoir, and archival research, The World Is Always Coming to an End uses the story of one American neighborhood to challenge our assumptions about what neighborhoods are, and to think anew about what they might be if we can bridge gaps and commit anew to the people who share them with us. Tomorrow is another ending. -- c From publisher's description. 600 10 $a Rotella, Carlo, $d 1964- 600 17 $a Rotella, Carlo, $d 1964- $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00394107 650 0 $a Neighborhoods $z Chicago. $z Chicago. 650 0 $a City and town life $z Chicago. $z Chicago. 651 0 $a South Shore (Chicago, Ill.) 650 7 $a City and town life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862081 650 7 $a Neighborhoods. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01715963 651 7 $a Illinois $z Chicago. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204048 651 7 $a Illinois $z South Shore. $z South Shore. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01316139 830 0 $a Chicago visions + revisions 941 $a 2 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214014916.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20201103014736.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C1CC4DF0B81211E9A4E5754297128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search