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A current and ongoing story of unequal power in Chicago. Four representatives of immigrant and migrant groups that have had a distinct territorial presence in the area--one Jewish, one Italian, one African-American, and one Mexican--reminisce fondly on life in the old neighborhood and tell of their struggles to save it and the 120-year-old Maxwell Street Market that was at its core.

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Eastwood continues in the tradition of Berkow and Terkel to breathe life into our ethnic and working class past. --Dr. Steve Balkin, Roosevelt University

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Carolyn Eastwood is an adjunct professor of anthropology at the College of DuPage and at Roosevelt University. She received her PhD in Public Policy Analysis from the University of Illinois at Chicago with the dissertation entitled A Study of the Regulation of Chicago's Street Vendors. Her extensive travels and studies have concentrated on markets, vendors, and ethnic occupations in low-income communities. She lives in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Carolyn Eastwood was born in Canton, Ohio and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. She relocated to the Chicago area in 1943, but has lived and worked in many locations across the United States and throughout the world, including Washington D.C., England, Israel, and Italy. Her extensive travels have concentrated on markets, vendors, and ethnic occupations in low-income communities.Carolyn received a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, an M.A. in Anthropology from Northern Illinois University, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis from the University of Illinois at Chicago with the dissertation, A Study of the Regulation of Chicago's Street Vendors. She published Chicago's Jewish Street Peddlers with the Chicago Jewish Historical Society in 1991. In March of 1995, Eastwood presented The Demise of an Urban Market: Does it Matter? Who Cares? at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society.Carolyn teaches Cross-Cultural Anthropology at Roosevelt University in Chicago and also is an adjunct faculty member at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. She resides in Glen Ellyn with her husband, Tony.

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