{"id":37746,"date":"2016-09-12T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T18:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=37746"},"modified":"2016-10-27T13:24:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T18:24:52","slug":"uwm-historian-finds-history-chicago-city-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/uwm-historian-finds-history-chicago-city-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"51ÁÔÆæ historian finds history in Chicago city blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Block by block, the citizens of Chicago are making their city a safer, cleaner, happier place.<\/p>\n<p>51ÁÔÆæ historian Amanda Seligman explores a neighborly phenomenon in her new book, \u201cChicago\u2019s Block Clubs: How Neighbors Shape the City.\u201d For more than a century, people of the Second City have banded together to form block clubs, small organizations that tackle the everyday problems of city living that are big enough to be a nuisance but too inconsequential to catch the eye of the local government.<\/p>\n<p>It was a concept that intrigued Seligman \u2013 and one that has remained relatively unexplored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though block clubs are everywhere in Chicago and everyone knows what they are, almost no one had written about them before,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The book explores the block clubs\u2019 origins in the Urban League and traces them to their modern iterations in today\u2019s community policing programs in the Chicago Police Department. Block club members do everything from cleaning streets to monitoring local crime to building playgrounds. They\u2019re sometimes major outlets for community organizing in the city \u2013 especially in areas that don\u2019t have much political clout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne big remaining question is whether block clubs can help at all with the gun violence crisis plaguing big cities like Chicago and Milwaukee,\u201d Seligman said. \u201cIf neighbors band together in block clubs, can they reduce the overall level of violence?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seligman\u2019s book is available on Amazon at <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2cA1ywf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/amzn.to\/2cA1ywf<\/a> in paperback, hardcover, and Kindle formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Block by block, the citizens of Chicago are making their city a safer, cleaner, happier place. 51ÁÔÆæ historian Amanda Seligman explores a neighborly phenomenon in her new book, \u201cChicago\u2019s Block Clubs: How Neighbors Shape the City.\u201d For more than a century, people of the Second City have banded together to form block 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