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TABLE OF CONTENTS Dedication……………………………………………………………………………………....vii Acknowledgements..........................................................................................................viii x Page List of Figures ................................................................................................................... xii Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION: STUDYING THE URBAN ........................................................... 1 Prior Research ...................................................................................................... 5 Research Focus .................................................................................................. 11 2. THEORY AND METHODOLOGY............................................................................ 14 Gentrification and the City ................................................................................ 18 Research Method ............................................................................................... 21 3. SETTING ..................................................................................................................... 25 The City ............................................................................................................. 25 Oak Park Today ................................................................................................. 27 Historical Overview ........................................................................................... 31 Oak Park, an Agricultural Beginning ........................................................... 32 Oak Park, a Suburban Destination ............................................................... 33 Revitalization of the Neighborhood ............................................................. 38 Community Groups and Non-profit Organizations ........................................... 41 4. COMMITTED TO CHANGE ..................................................................................... 44 Community Groups in Oak Park ....................................................................... 48
Neighborhood Association ........................................................................... 50 Women’s Group ........................................................................................... 53 Labor Association ........................................................................................ 55 Non-profit Organizations in Oak Park ............................................................... 59 5. CLAIMS TO THE CITY ............................................................................................. 62 Role of State and Media ..................................................................................... 64 Social Conflict ................................................................................................... 65 Liquor Stores and Eminent Domain ............................................................ 68 Police Patrol in the Neighborhood ............................................................... 75 Forming Oak Park Neighborhood Latinos ................................................... 79 Labor Organizing in the Neighborhood ....................................................... 84 Conducting a Women’s Needs Assessment Study ...................................... 91 Conflict among Middle-class and Lower-income Residents ....................... 96 St. HOPE Corporation ............................................................................... 100 Non-Participants ........................................................................................ 103 6. ANALYSIS ................................................................................................................ 108 Rights to the City ............................................................................................. 108 7. CONCLUSION .......................................................................................................... 120 Notes ............................................................................................................................... 133 References....................................................................................................................... xi 136
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Page 7 and 8: DEDICATION For my parents Joe and I
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Page 17 and 18: known about the residents who are l
Page 19 and 20: contested racialized images of thei
Page 21 and 22: Although the anthropological litera
Page 23 and 24: Research Focus The research site of
Page 25 and 26: Association was also gaining attent
Page 27 and 28: in city environments is exposed in
Page 29 and 30: Moffat (1992:217) states, “if man
Page 31 and 32: Choldin and Hanson (1981:562) defin
Page 33 and 34: neighborhood. The neighborhood thus
Page 35 and 36: the various definitions of “commu
Page 37 and 38: The City Chapter 3 SETTING The city
Page 39 and 40: stratified, selective, and distance
Page 41 and 42: people living outside the neighborh
Page 43 and 44: studies have demonstrated that reli
Page 45 and 46: In 1889, the Oak Park Association s
Page 47 and 48: edevelopment projects elsewhere in
Page 49 and 50: een lured to Arts and Crafts style
Page 51 and 52: ig black sunglasses, khakis, and a
Page 53 and 54: poverty. They and their comrades wo
Page 55 and 56: undesirable consequences; it can pr
Page 57 and 58: aiding in the dilapidation of the c
Page 59 and 60: Different types of social change in
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groups that are political and produ
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problems, events, and initiatives.
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Pertinent to the Neighborhood Assoc
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were to be the main participants in
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members, students, and sympathetic
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evitalization projects in the commu
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1990:138). Likewise, “The mission
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eports of residents marching down t
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Altheide and Michalowski (1999:476)
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organizations is part of a broader
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hours of the day and night and resi
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At a particular Neighborhood Associ
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I think the city is trying to make
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community they began an onslaught o
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Rehabilitation programs would do a
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“neighborhood” as one where the
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were being made by middle-class res
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efreshments and appetizers and maki
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For three months I performed a vari
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and spent their time trying to recr
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Convention Center in downtown Sacra
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more than two decades we have oppos
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The surveys for the Women’s Needs
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these residents were also affected
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professor, who was also a Neighborh
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twenty other residents in May to ma
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Most community members felt the sch
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coordinated with community revitali
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you sure you want to live here? Jus
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the community but are able to view
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esidents have “rights to the city
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are activists and non-activists in
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Ethnic entrepreneurs in American so
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such as milk, eggs, and toiletries,
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presence that would produce long-te
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eneficial to one group may not be b
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organizations conflict and tried to
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social stratification in the commun
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class does not view the lifeways of
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them. And the middle-class don’t
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in low-income neighborhoods. Among
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improve the quality of life for res
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NOTES 1 Neighborhood “revitalizat
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20 The National Labor Federation (1
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Altheide, L. David and Michalowski,
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Boyd, Michelle Bridge, Gary 2005.
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Ertll, J. Randy 2008. “Celebratin
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Gupta, Akhil and Ferguson, James 19
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Jenkins, Timothy 1994. “Fieldwork
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Lee, A. Barrett, Spain, Daphne, and
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Marwell, P. Nicole 2004. “Privati
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Nylund, Katarina Oropesa, S. R 2001
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Rosenhall, Laurel 2005. “Charter
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Simpson, M.A. Lee 2004. Images of A
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Thacher, David 2001. “Conflicting
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Wolch, R. Jennifer 1980. “Residen
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