Study Guide #6
The Ethnic Neighborhoods

Bungalow Belt
Chicago Bungalow
Architectural Elements
Bungalow Belt
Craftsman Style
Frank Lloyd Wright
Prairie School
Bungalow-belt churches
Cardinal Mundelein
The Urban Model
“Safety”
Commuting to work
Restrictive Covenants

Great Migration
Chicago Defender
Robert S. “Bud” Abbott
‘Defender’s Bible’
Bud Billiken Club
“Sweet Home Chicago”
Great Migration
Illinois Central R.R.
Mississippi Delta
Black Belt
Push Factors:
Lynchings
Jim Crow Laws
Sharecropping
Poverty
Pull Factors:
Industrial Jobs
World War I
“Passing” & “One Drop Rule”
Segregation
Second KKK
Birth of a Nation
Plessy v. Fergusson
Bronzeville
“The Stroll”
Bronzeville Renaissance
Gwendolyn Brooks
Richard Wright
Ida B. Wells
Chicago Urban League
Race Music
Jazz & Blues
Louis Armstrong
Willie Dixon
Chess & Okeh Records
Call & Response
Red Summer
1919 Race Riot
Bridgeport Irish
Richard J. Daley
Hamburg Athletic Club
Ragen’s Colts

Chicago Salad
Ethnic Diversity
Ghetto
Shift to South & East Europe
Immigration:
Russian Jews
Italians
Czechs and Slovaks
Polish
Melting Pot
The sandwich in Chicago
Chicago “Salad”
Maxwell Street

Bootlegging Wars
Al Capone
Prohibition
Terrible Tommy Touhy
Johnny Torrio
Bootlegging
Speakeasy
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
Chicago Outfit (Syndicate)
“Big” Bill Thompson
Eliot Ness
North Side Gang
Dean O’Banion
Bugs Moran
The Untouchables
Drive-by Shootings
Tax Evasion

Great Depression
Capone’s Free Lunch
Great Depression
Anton Cermak
Frank Nitti
Wets vs. Dries
Repeal of Prohibition
Cermak’s Dem. Machine
William Dawson
New Deal
WPA Projects in City
Studs Terkel & Hard Times
Century of Progress Expo
Lace Curtain vs. Pig Irish
ARET Tax Strike

Things to Review
Pacyga pp. 184-9; 204-28; 240-8, 250-258
Primary Source Documents
Class notes
Cheat You Fair film
QoDs and Opens

a)	How did immigration to Chicago change in the early 1900s? 
b)	Who bought bungalows? Why did people want to live in bungalows?
c)	How did the Bungalow Belt change the urban model?
d)	What is the relationship between art and practicality?
e)	Why did art and literature thrive in Bronzeville?
f)	What caused the 1919 Riots?
g)	Why is Chicago’s ethnic diversity more like a salad than it is a melting pot?
h)	Why did 2nd & 3rd generation immigrants move away from ghettos?
i)	Why did the Bungalow Belt residents work to keep “others” out?
j)	Why did Al Capone’s empire collapse?