Andrew Diamond wrote an excellent piece on Chicago in a voluminous book looking back at Chicago and its political traditions of fraud and swindle. Andrew's book called "Chicago On The Make:Power and inequality in a Modern City deals with the long held problems of Americas traditional second city and perhaps the most egregious outlaw area ever developed in a supposed democratic era. This book does a good job in his city that mirrors the larger society covering the racial aspects and division of the city that mirrors the aspects of the nation but has a more clear and delivered a more apartheid type direction over time as minority and non-white populations increased and demanded more power for their areas.
The shenanigans of the two Daley administrations is written successfully and the so-called superficial progress of modern Chicago came at a price and more underdevelopment and social segregation of people and culture. Diamond though talks a lot of how racism developed among youth cultures and he pondered how Puerto Ricans unaccustomed to racial strife n their island would suddenly develop it in America with both Blacks and Whites in Chicago. No where does Andrew Diamond though talk about for-profit over-crowding of place as the culprit and racial strife in this time periods with more social awareness of whom people are and their place in the social hierarchy determined by birth. Progressives also were getting a hold of educational institutions and starting to blame Americans for the poverty and plights of ethnic minorities and without a doubt the anti-White anti-American teaching in history and public schools roused both black and Puerto Ricans.

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