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• Social conditions -- 20th century

• The taxi-dance hall : a sociological study in commercialized recreation and city life (Chicago, Illinois : University of Chicago Press, 1932., 1932), by Paul Goalby Cressey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• A Fatal Drifting Apart: Democratic Social Knowledge and Chicago Reform (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Laura M. Westhoff (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Spider and the Fly: or, Tricks, Traps, and Pitfalls of City Life, By One Who Knows (compilation of some previous publications, with some early pages missing; New York: C. Miller and Co., 1875), contrib. by Henry William Herbert
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• The Natural History of a Delinquent Career (second impression; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938), by Clifford R. Shaw and Maurice E. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hull-House, a social settlement at 335 South Halsted Street, Chicago; an outline sketch, February 1, 1894. (s.n.] ;, 1894), by Ill.) Hull House (Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)
• The aging city, factors related to the gray area problem in Chicago. ([Urbana], 1956), by University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Department of Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty years at Hull-House; being "Twenty years at Hull-House" and "The second twenty years at Hull-House" (The Macmillan Company, 1935), by Jane Addams and Lillian D. Wald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The woman who waits (R. G. Badger, 1920), by Frances R. Donovan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American girl in the stockyards district (University of Chicago Press, 1913), by Louise Montgomery, University of Chicago. Chicago Alumnae Club, and University of Chicago. Settlement. Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opportunities in school and industry for children of the stockyards district (University of Chicago Press, 1912), by Ernest L. Talbert and University of Chicago. Settlement. Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tenement conditions in Chicago (City Homes Association, 1901), by Robert Hunter and Ill.) City Homes Association (Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)
• Human welfare work in Chicago (A. C. McClurg, 1917), by Harvey Clarence Carbaugh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes (The Macmillan company, 1911), by Jane Addams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parent groups and social agencies; the activities of health and welfare agencies with groups of parents of handicapped children in Chicago. (Printed by the University of Chicago Press, 1951), by Joseph H 1908- Levy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes. (The Macmillan company, 1910), by Jane Addams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hobo : the sociology of the homeless man. A study prepared for the Chicago Council of Social Agencies under the direction of the Committee on Homeless Men. (University of Chicago Press, 1961), by Nels Anderson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Churches and voluntary associations in the Chicago Negro community. (W.P.A. district 3, 1940), by St. Clair Drake and United States. Work Projects Administration (Ill.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hobohemia. (R. R. Smith, 1956), by Frank Orman Beck (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Chicago recreation survey, 1937 ... (Chicago, 1937), by Chicago Recreation Commission, Harold L. Vierow, William Fisher Bryon, Arthur James Todd, and Ill.) Northwestern University (Evanston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Field course and survey, greater Chicago Heights area ... (Boards of education, Districts 170 and 206, 1942), by University of Chicago. Department of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Culture agencies of a typical manufacturing group: South Chicago ... (The University of Chicago press, 1901), by John M. Gillette (page images at HathiTrust)
• Block groups and community change; an evaluation of the block program of the Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference. (Human Dynamics Laboratory, University of Chicago], 1955), by Bettie Belk Sarchet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes (The Macmillan company, 1924), by Jane Addams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes (The Macmillan company, 1939), by Jane Addams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The natural history of a delinquent career (A. Saifer, 1951), by Clifford Robe Shaw and Maurice E. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of the higher life of Chicago. (Chicago, 1905), by Thomas J. Riley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes (The Macmillan Co., 1927), by Jane Addams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Waifs of the slums and their way out (Fleming H. Revell Co., 1907), by Leonard Benedict and A. C. Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Packingtown (C.H. Kerr, 1899), by A. M. Simons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice, 1997), by Felton Earls, Christy Ann Visher, and National Institute of Justice (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Role of depression in the development of delinquency (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice, 1999), by Dawn A. Obeidallah, Felton Earls, and National Institute of Justice (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Growing up with a city (The Macmillan Company, 1926), by Louise de Koven Bowen and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the Englewood project; a project for treatment of pre-delinquent children (Juvenile Protective Association, 1958), by Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago and G. Lewis Penner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago and its cess-pools of infamy ([Chicago, 1910), by Samuel Paynter Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Study of Chicago's stockyards community ... an investigation carried on under the direction of the Board of the University of Chicago Settlement and the Chicago Alumnae Club of the University of Chicago. (University of Chicago Press, 1912), by University of Chicago. Chicago Alumnae Club and University of Chicago. Settlement. Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• The man-traps of the city : a young man's warning to young men (Fleming H. Revell, 1884), by Thomas Edward Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago and its cess-pools of infamy ([Chicago, 1915), by Samuel Paynter Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chicago by gaslight (s.n, 1910), by Samuel Paynter Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miracles in the slums; or, Thrilling stories of those rescued from the cesspools of iniquity, and touching incidents in the lives of the unfortunate (Shaw, 1905), by Seth Cook Rees (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mysteries of Chicago. (Craig Press, 1893), by George Wharton James and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Local community fact book, 1938 .... (Chicago recreation commission, 1938), by Louis Wirth, Edward Lawver Burchard, Margaret Furez, Illinois State Planning Commission, Federal Writers' Project, United States. National Youth Administration, United States. Work Projects Administration, University of Chicago. Social science research committee, and Chicago Recreation Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social backgrounds of Chicago's local communities. ([Chicago, 1930), by University of Chicago Local Community Research Committee, E. W. Burgess, and Vivien M. Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Salaries and professional qualifications of social workers in Chicago, 1935 (The University of Chicago press, 1937), by Merrill F. Krughoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago by gaslight. (Chicago, Ill., 1910), by Samuel Paynter Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago by gaslight. (Chicago, 1910), by Samuel Paynter Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Urban analysis report. (Chicago Community Inventory, University of Chicago, 1951), by Chicago Community Inventory (page images at HathiTrust)
• The school children of the stockyards district. An investigation carried on under the direction of the Board of the University of Chicago Settlement. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1913), by Caroline Hedger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The city of Chicago : a study of the great immoralities (S.S. McClure Co., 1907), by George Kibbe Turner and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lost sisterhood (s.n., 1910), by Samuel Paynter Wilson and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago, backgrounds of education (Werkman's book house, 1940), by Jules Karlin and Chicago Teachers College (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chicago; a more intimate view of urban politics (Macmillan, 1929), by Charles Edward Merriam (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chicago's dark places; investigations by a corps of specially appointed Commissioners (The Craig Press, 1891), by George Wharton James (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spider and the fly; or, Tricks, traps, and pitfalls of city life. (C. Miller & co., 1873), by Henry William Herbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes (The Macmillan Company, 1923), by Jane Addams and Eva Warner Case (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social base map of Chicago, showing industrial areas, parks, transportation, and language groups. (University of Chicago Press, 1926), by University of Chicago Local Community Research Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A community in flux : the Chicago ghetto re-surveyed (University of North Carolina Press], 1926), by Maurice H. Krout (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hobo; the sociology of the homeless man (Chicago, Ill. : The University of Chicago Press, (1923.), 1923), by Nels Anderson and Chicago Council of Social Agencies (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gang (The University of Chicago press, 1927), by Frederic Milton Thrasher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless Man, by Nels Anderson, ed. by Robert Ezra Park (Gutenberg ebook)
• Chicago and its cess-pools of infamy, by Samuel Paynter Wilson (Gutenberg ebook)

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