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The Eighth Biennial Urban History Association Conference October 13–16, 2016 TENTATIVE Corboy Law Center Loyola University Chicago 25 E. Pearson Street Chicago, IL 60610 The Urban History Association Eighth Biennial Conference Program Committee Nathan Connolly Johns Hopkins University, Co-Chair Donna Murch Rutgers University, Co-Chair Leandro Benmergui State University of New York, Purchase Wendy Cheng Arizona State University Lilia Fernandez Rutgers University David Freund University of Maryland Lily Geismer Claremont McKenna College Rachel Jean-Baptiste University of California, Davis Jessica Levy Johns Hopkins University Sam Mitriani College of DuPage County Ana Elizabeth Rosas University of California, Irvine Local Arrangements Committee René Alvarez Arrupe College, Loyola University Chicago Mike Amezcua University of Notre Dame Joe Bigott Purdue University at Calumet Henry Binford Northwestern University Gerry Cadava Northwestern University Terry Clark University of Chicago Steven Corey Columbia College Diane Dillon Newberry Library Paul Durica Arts Club of Chicago Michael Ebner CHM Urban History Seminar, Lake Forest College Robert Johnston University of Illinois at Chicago Sandra Frink Roosevelt University Elliott Gorn Loyola University Chicago Danny Greene U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum D. Bradford Hunt CHM Urban History Seminar, Newberry Library Ann Keating CHM Urban History Seminar, North Central College Lionel Kimble Chicago State University Russell Lewis CHM Urban History Seminar, Chicago History Museum TENTATIVECindy Lobel Lehman College, CUNY, ex officio Christopher Manning Loyola University Chicago Timothy Mennel University of Chicago Press Patricia Mooney-Melvin Loyola University Chicago Timothy Neary Salve Regina University, ex officio Michelle Nickerson Loyola University Chicago, ex officio Dominic Pacyga Columbia College Emily Remus University of Notre Dame Rima Schultz Independent Scholar Ellen Skerrett Independent Scholar Frank Valadez Chicago Metro History Center James Wolfinger DePaul University Contents Welcome by Timothy Gilfoyle, UHA President Conference at a Glance Campus Map and Parking Venue Maps WiFi and Public Transit Restaurants Overview: Thursday, October 13 Overview: Friday, October 14 Concurrent Sessions: Friday 8:00-9:30 AM 9:50-11:20 AM 12:30-1:45 PM 2:00-3:30 PM 3:45-5:00 PM Overview: Saturday, October 15 Concurrent Sessions: Saturday 8:00-9:30 AM 9:50-11:20 AM 12:30-1:45 PM 2:00-3:30 PM TENTATIVE3:45-5:00 PM Overview: Sunday, October 16 Concurrent Sessions: Sunday 9:00-10:30 AM 10:45-12:15 PM Get program updates and conference information at http://www.urbanhistory.org/ 1 Welcome to the Conference By Timothy Gilfoyle, UHA President Welcome to Chicago! As 2015-16 President of the Urban History Association, I want to welcome you to the Eighth Biennial UHA Conference, the largest and hopefully the most exciting ever. Over four days, the conference will be home to approximately 550 urban historians, writers, scholars and journalists from six continents, 40 states, the District of Columbia and a dozen countries, including Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and South Korea. More than ever, the UHA is a transnational and international institution. Conference participants will be involved in more than 150 panels, plenaries, roundtables, and tours during their four days in Chicago. The conference theme – The Working Urban – highlights the importance of the varieties of labor in urban history and the multiple ways urban historians define their own work. The program reflects that diversity with more than 30 panels devoted to workshops, roundtables, plenaries and book discussions, while paying special attention to topics marking the anniversaries of events that profoundly influenced cities, including Martin Luther King’s campaign to “End Slums” in Chicago, the Immigration Act of 1965 and the 100th birthday of Jane Jacobs. Most of you have visited Chicago. But the weather is often less than hospitable (January for the American Historical Association annual meeting). I hope you can spend some time exploring the city. Walk in any direction from our conference site. Within 45 minutes you can see the first glass box skyscrapers designed by Mies van der Rohe in the U.S., the oldest apartments or “French Flats” in Chicago, Hugh Hefner’s original Playboy mansion, the bullet marks on Holy Name Cathedral where Hymie Weiss was gunned down in 1926 by his gangland enemies, America’s first “vertical mall” in Water Tower Place, the great inland sea of North America (Lake Michigan), the “cathedral” of American evangelicalism at the Moody Bible Institute, the hotel where David Mamet wrote American Buffalo, and, of course, some of the few surviving structures of the great Chicago Fire of 1871: the Pumping Station and Water Tower on Michigan Avenue. All of us should give special thanks to Executive Director Timothy Neary for not only organizing this conference, but also moving the UHA into the 21st century with its new website (check it out at http://www.urbanhistory.org/); Nathan D.B. Connolly and Donna Murch for reading more panel and paper proposals thanTENTATIVE any other UHA program chairs in history; and Brad Hunt and René Alvarez for helping with local arrangements and assembling one of the most interesting rosters of urban tours of any UHA conference to date. On behalf of the UHA, I want to gratefully thank the major sponsors of the conference: Loyola University Chicago’s College of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School, Department of History, and Center for Urban Research and Learning; the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame; the Chicago History Museum; the Minow Family Foundation; and the University of Chicago Press. Enjoy Chicago. Timothy Gilfoyle is Professor and former Chair of History at Loyola University Chicago and a trustee at the Chicago History Museum. His books include A Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth- Century New York (2006); Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark (2006) and City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920 (1992). 2 Conference at a Glance All Concurrent Sessions will be in Corboy Law Center, 25 E. Pearson Street Thursday, October 13 9:00 AM-5:00 PM – REGISTRATION Corboy Law Center: Lobby 12:00-5:00 PM – TOUR: SOUTH SIDE CHICAGO Departs: In front of Corboy Law Center 5:00-7:00 PM – OPENING RECEPTION Chicago History Museum, 1601 N. Clark Street Friday, October 14 7:30 AM-4:00 PM – REGISTRATION Corboy Law Center: Lobby 8:00 AM-5:00 PM – CONCURRENT SESSIONS 8:00 AM-4:30 PM – CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (8-11 AM) / COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS Corboy Law Center: Kasbeer Hall, 15th Floor 9:00 AM-5:00 PM – BOOK EXHIBIT Corboy Law Center: Kasbeer Hall, 15th Floor 9:45 AM-12:00 PM – TOUR: THE NATIONAL PUBLIC HOUSING MUSEUM Departs: Lobby of Corboy Law Center 12:00-3:30 PM – TOUR: HULL-HOUSE, UIC AND THE NEAR WEST SIDE Departs: Lobby of Corboy Law Center 5:00-7:00 PM – RECEPTION Pritzker Music Pavilion, Millennium Park, 205 E. Randolph Street Saturday, October 15 7:30 AM-4:00 PM – REGISTRATION Corboy Law Center: Lobby 8:00 AM-5:00 PM – CONCURRENT SESSIONS 8:00 AM-4:30 PM – CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (8-11 AM) / COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS Corboy Law Center: Kasbeer Hall, 15th Floor 9:00 AM-4:00 PM – BOOK EXHIBIT Corboy Law Center: Kasbeer Hall, 15th Floor 9:00 AM-12:30 PM – TOUR: CHURCHES OF PILSEN Departs: Lobby of Corboy Law Center 11:25 AM-12:25 PM – UHA BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING Baumhart Hall, 26 E. PearsonTENTATIVE Street: Room 407 1:30-3:30 PM – TOUR: MEXICAN CHICAGO Departs: 18th St. “L” station (Pink Line), Ground Floor Lobby 5:30-6:45 PM – RECEPTION Schreiber Center, 16 East Pearson Street: Lobby 7:00-9:00 PM – GALA BANQUET, AWARDS, AND PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Corboy Law Center: Kasbeer Hall, 15th Floor Sunday, October 16 8:30-11:00 AM – REGISTRATION Corboy Law Center: Lobby 8:30-11:00 AM – CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST / COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS Corboy Law Center: Kasbeer Hall, 15th Floor 9:00 AM-12:15 PM – CONCURRENT SESSIONS 3 WATER TOWER CAMPUS 900 North Michigan Shops N P 900 N. Michigan 100 FEET E. DELAWARE PLACE E. DELAWARE PLACE N. MICHIGAN AVE. N. MICHIGAN AVE. N. WABASH ST. N. RUSH ST. N. ERNST CT. N. STATE ST. 1 Fourth John Hancock Presbyterian Center Church 1 E. Delaware Place (Enter on Chestnut) 850 N. State P E. CHESTNUT ST. P E. CHESTNUT ST. W. CHESTNUT STREET Archbishop CTA Water Tower Place P Quigley 111 E. Chestnut No.147 &151 Center 100 W. Chestnut (Enter on Pearson) BUSES (at Clark) 2 3 P E. PEARSON ST. E. PEARSON ST. MAGUIRE LEWIS TOWERS HALL & LUMA (Museum SCHOOL OF Historic 4 COMMUNICATION N. RUSH ST. of Art) Water Tower N. MICHIGAN AVE. N. MICHIGAN AVE. Historic Pumping Station CTA RED LINE E. CHICAGO AVE. E. CHICAGO AVE. N. STATE ST. P CTA No.36 750 N. Rush BUS 1 W. Superior P E. SUPERIOR ST. E. SUPERIOR ST. 25 W. Superior P (Enter one block south on Huron) 1 Whitehall Hotel (105 E. Delaware Pl.) 2 Schreiber Center (16 E. Pearson) 3 Baumhart Hall (26 E. Pearson) 4 CORBOY LAW CENTER & ANNEX (25 E. Pearson) Parking: Conference participantsTENTATIVE and attendees are eligible for reduced fare parking at the following nearby parking lots. Validations are available in the lobby of the Corboy Law Center, 25 E. Pearson. Rates may change without notice. 4 Corboy Law Center & Annex Entrance at 25 E. Pearson Street E. Pearson St. E. Pearson St. 2nd Floor 3rd Floor ROOM ROOM ROOM 205 St. N. Wabash 303 St. N. Wabash 302 ELEVATORS ELEVATORS ROOM 306 ROOM 207 ROOM ROOM 208 209 ROOM 322 ROOM 211 ROOM 321 CORBOY MAIN BUILDING CORBOY ANNEX CORBOY MAIN BUILDING E.