Never Leave Your Block: Adventures in Urban Living

Chicago's Bucktown was the old stomping ground for Mike Royko and Nelson Algren. Its colorful characters and bedrock values were the life blood of a city on the make. Now comes Scott Jacobs with a look at life in Bucktown as it plays out today in a new Chicago where gentrifying neighbors settle into former gang territory, sharing the streets, parks and schools of a diverse and multifacted community.