Murder and Mayhem in Chicago's Vice Districts

From the very beginning, Chicago thrived on its reputation as a wide-open town. After the Great Fire, no part of the city was rebuilt more quickly than the vice districts, where bribed cops and brutal force emboldened professional wickedness to celebrate itself with gala events like the First Ward Ball, begun in honor of a madam's pianist and often so crowded that passed-out drunks couldn't even fall to the floor. Randolph Street was nicknamed Gambler's Row because men gambled with their lives by visiting it. In Little Hell, guns and knives could be rented by the hour. In these seedy areas only put to sleep by Mickey Finn's knockout drinks or Gentle Annie's knockout punches, it is no wonder that Detective Woolridge kept seventy-five disguises, made twenty thousand arrests and was shot at forty-four times.

Product details

• Authors: Troy Taylor
• Publisher: The History Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2009
• EAN: 9781596296923
• ISBN: 978-1-59629-692-3
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 224 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 181 g
• Series: Murder & Mayhem; Murder & Mayhem
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Amerikanische Geschichte, USA Mittlerer Westen, TRUE CRIME / General, True Crime / Espionage, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)