Anthony M. Orum
Department of Sociology College of Liberal Art and Sciences
Abstract
About ten minutes from where I live, in Highland Park, north of Chicago, a house is being built. It sits at 1371 Sheridan Road and occupies virtually the entire lot, from one side to the other. A driveway runs from the road to the house, and to its two two-car garages that face the street. The house is massive, clearly too big for its lot, but just the right size for its owners. It cost at least a million dollars, and, when done, will be occupied by a commodities trader and his wife, both in their fifties. It is their dream house — massive, high ceilings, 5,000 square feet, and with a toney address on Chicago’s North Shore.
