This month's University of Chicago Press free e-book is
Chicago’s Block Clubs: How Neighbors Shape the City by Amanda I. Seligman.
“Insistently local in its focus. . .Offers microlevel detail and archival documentation that makes it almost like primary source material. . .The book’s strength is in meticulously documenting the “persistent efforts of residents to control their environment” and their resolve to do so with others” — Journal of Urban Affairs