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A History of the Federal Reserve – Volume 2, Book 2: 1970–1986. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 1243– 1256. ISBN 978-0226213514. Sumner, Scott B. (2021). The Money Illusion: Market Monetarism, the Great Recession, and the Future of Monetary Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226773681
The passage of civil rights laws in the 1960s also affected Chicago and other northern cities. In the 1960s and the 1970s, many middle- and upper-class Americans continued to move from the city for better housing and schools in the suburbs. Office building resumed in the 1960s.
In the Great Depression, GDP fell by 27% (the deepest after demobilization is the recession beginning in December 2007, during which GDP had fallen 5.1% by the second quarter of 2009) and the unemployment rate reached 24.9% (the highest since was the 10.8% rate reached during the 1981–1982 recession). [40]
Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226238008. Graham, Hugh Davis (1980). "On Riots and Riot Commisions: Civil Disorders in the 1960s" (PDF). Public Historian. 2 (4): 7– 27. doi:10.2307/3377640. JSTOR 3377640. Grimshaw, William J. (1992). Bitter Fruit: Black Politics and the Chicago Machine, 1931-1991. Chicago: University of Chicago ...
144 years ago, the Great Fire of Chicago took over the city, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis The 1973–1975 recession or 1970s recession was a period of economic stagnation in much of the Western world (i.e. the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand) during the 1970s, putting an end to the overall post–World War II economic expansion.
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940–1960. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9781283097598. McKersie, Robert B. (2013). A Decisive Decade: An Insider's View of the Chicago Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 9780809332458.
The 1968 Democratic National Convention protests were a series of protests against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War that took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. The protests lasted approximately seven days, from August 23 to August 29, 1968, and drew an estimated 7,000 to ...