Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society

Volume 100, No. 4 Winter 2007-2008

Articles:

Erik Schneiderhan:  Jane Addams and Charity Organization in Chicago (pp 299-327)

David W. Scott: Religion in the Schools: Illinois Courts v. United States Supreme Court (pp 328-359)

Steve Schneider: The View From Here: The Story of the George Rogers Clark Statue in Quincy, Illinois (pp 360-382)

Reviews: Chicago History:

Hudson, Chicago: A Geography of the City and its Region.

Cutler, Chicago: Metropolis of the Mid-Continent, Fourth Edition.

Gilfoyle, Millenium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark.

Boyd, ed., City 2000.

Skogan, Police and Community in Chicago: A Tale of Three Cities.

Vankatesch, Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor.

Feldman and Stall, The Dignity of Resistance: Women Residents' Activism in Chicago Public Housing.

Schweiterman and Claspall, The Politics of Place: A History of Zoning in Chicago.

                        Reviewed by Perry R. Duis

Polikoff, Waiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto.

Knupfer, The Chicago Black Renaissance and Black Women's Activism.

Whiteis, Chicago Blues: Portraits and Stories.

Guzman, ed., Black Writing From Chicago: In the World, Not of It?

Blakely, Earl B. Dickerson: A Voice for Freedom and Equality.

Best, Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952.

                        Reviewed by Christopher Manning

Heinz, Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide.

Cannon, Hometown Architect: The Complete Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park and River Forest, Illinois.

Smith, The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City.

                        Reviewed by Arthur M. Martin

Heaphy, ed.,  Black Baseball and Chicago: Essays on the Players, Teams and Games of the Negro Leagues' Most Important City.

Carney, Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball's Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded.

                        Reviewed by Gordon McKinney

Mullin, The Rise and Self-Destruction of the Greatest Football Team in History: The Chicago Bears and Super Bowl XXI.

                        Reviewed by Will Cooley

Contributors:

Steve Schneider received his B.A. in History from Quincy College in Quincy, Illinois, in 1979. He is enrolled in the Master of Liberal Arts program at the University of Chicago and is vice-president of the American Insurance Association's Midwestern Region in Chicago. His article on the Clark statue recounts the story of its conception, dedication, and re-dedication in Quincy. Schneider also presented on this topic at the 2005 annual conferences of the Illinois State Historic Preservation Agency and the Illinois State Historical Society. He also presented a paper at the 2007 Illinois State History Society's History Symposium that explored the role of George Rogers Clark in the establishment of the Mississippi River as the western boundary for the United States in the Paris Peace Treaty of 1783. He is presently researching a paper on the Compromise of 1850. He resides in Deerfield.

Erik Schneiderhan is a doctoral student in the Sociology Department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is interested in historical sociology, political sociology, organizational sociology, and pragmatism. His dissertation, Jane Addams and the Rise and Fall of Pragmatist Social Provision at Hull-House, 1871-1908, is a case study that draws on relational sociology to illuminate changes in the wa people were helped by residents of Hull-House.

David Scott is an independent scholar who received his Ph.D. in political science at Northwestern University in 1969. He specialized in educational politics and organization. He has taught American Government courses part-time in a number of Illinois colleges and universities and full time at Northern Illinois University of 1968-1973. From 1974-1999, he was on the staff of the newly-formed Illinois State Board of Education as a consultant in educational planning, organization, and policy. His article has its origins in a paper he presented at the 1987 Symposium of the Illinois State Historical Society. He served the Society as President from 2003-2005; he is currently the chairman of the society's publications committee.

Cover:

The George Rogers Clark monument and statue in Quincy's Riverview Park, dedicated in 1909. (Source: Steve Schneider.)

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