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DIVISION STREET

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This side the dark and hollow bound Lies there no unexplored rich ground?

Some other world: well, there’s the New— Ah, joyless and ironic too!

herman melville, ��

We may either smother the divine ﬁre of youth or we may feed it. We may either stand stupidly staring as it sinks into a murky ﬁre of crime and flares into the intermittent blaze of folly or we may tend it into a lambent fl ame with power to make clean and bright our dingy city streets.

jane addams, ��

You see, there’s such a thing as a feeling tone. One is friendly and one is hostile. And if you don’t have this, baby, you’ve had it.

lucy jefferson, ��

Foreword to the �� Edition by Mary Schmich xiii

Foreword to the �� Edition by Alex Kotlowitz xviii

Introduction to the �� Edition by Studs Terkel xxii

Prefatory Notes xxiv

An A-B-C Guide for Non-Chicagoans xxxi

PROLOGUE �

Florence Scala �

PART

I “The Feeling Tone” ��

Lucy Jefferson ��

Gene Willis ��

Jan Powers ��

Harriet Behrens ��

Chester Kolar ��

Elizabeth Chapin ��

John Rath ��

Rita Buscari ��

PART II On the Town

Kid Pharaoh ��

Stan Lenard ��

x contents

PART III “Did You See Lord Jim?” ��

Dennis Hart ��

PART IV Two Landladies, a Cop, and the Stranger ��

Eva Barnes ��

Gladys Pennington ��

Tom Kearney ��

Carlos Alvarez ��

PART V Nostos ��

George Drossos ��

Lucky Miller ��

Billy Joe Gatewood ��

Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Parker ��

Bonnie Dawson ��

Benny Bearskin ��

Sister Evelyn ��

PART VI Homeowner ��

Henry Lorenz ��

Lew Gibson ��

Mike Kostelnik ��

Mrs. James Winslow ��

Bob Carter ��

PART VII Homemaker ��

Therese Carter ��

Helen Peters ��

Diane Romano ��

Barbara Hayes ��

PART VIII Noblesse Oblige ��

Mrs. R. Fuqua Davies ��

PART IX Ex-Domestic ��

Lois Arthur ��

PART X Executive Suite ��

Bill Dellakamp ��

PART XI Celebrity ��

Terence Ignatius Boyle ��

PART XII Madison Avenue, Chicago ��

Ross Pelletier ��

Charlie Landesfahr ��

PART XIII Golden Gloves ��

Jesus Lopez ��

PART XIV Skilled Hands, Old and New ��

Anton Faber ��

John Robison ��

Andrew Bartok ��

PART XV Retired ��

Ed Criado ��

Herb Gross ��

Charles Wilhelm ��

Valerie Bosard ��

Clyde Fulton ��

PART XVI “Search for Delight” ��

Barry Byrne ��

PART XVII Teacher ��

Janice Majewski ��

Judy Huff ��

Marlene Dexter ��

Nell Robison ��

PART XVIII Making It ��

Gene Willis, revisited ��

Norma Blair and Horton Blair ��

Bob Skinner ��

Edward Gilroy, Jr. ��

Frank D. Haley ��

Phil Eagle ��

PART XIX Fallaways ��

Dave Williamson ��

Hal Malden ��

PART XX Grass Rooters ��

Jim Campaigne ��

Anne Grierson ��

PART XXI The Inheritors ��

Chick Marmor ��

Bill Lahr ��

Amber Ladeira ��

Molly Rodriguez ��

Frankie Rodriguez ��

Dan Fowler ��

Jimmy White ��

Lily Lowell ��

EPILOGUE

Jessie Binford ��

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