- 128 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
From the mash in pioneer stills to the Malört in a hipster's shot glass, David Witter explores how liquor has influenced nearly two centuries of Chicago's existence.
Follow the trickle of alcohol through Chicago's history, starting with the town's first three permanent businesses: The Wolf, Green Tree and Eagle Exchange Taverns. Stir together stories from the Peoria Whiskey Trust and the Temperance Movement. The cocktails that lubricated the Levee District may have set up Chicago's first gangsters, but Prohibition-era bootleggers would change the city's identity forever. Post-Prohibition alcohol helped to create vast fortunes for Chicago based families and corporations, and the new Millennium saw KOVAL usher in a new era small and craft distilleries throughout Chicagoland. Sample a spirited history of the Windy City.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Chicago, a City that Made Beer but Not Whiskey
- Wolf Point: The Birth of Chicago Fueled by Spirits
- The Whiskey Trust: Whiskey Is Made Only in Peoria
- The Temperance Movement: Anchored in Chicago
- Chicago’s Immigrant Population, the Levee and the Coming of Prohibition
- Prohibition: The Face of the City Changes Forever
- Postwar Spirits Create New Liquor Empires
- Skid Row: The Darkest Side of Chicago Alcohol
- Malört–CH Distillery Plant: Chicago’s Legendary Hometown Liquor
- The Thornton Distilling Company: John Kinzie, Al Capone, Brewing and Distilling
- KOVAL Distillery and Tasting Room: Distilling Returns to Chicago After 140 Years
- The New Generation of Chicago Distilleries
- Bibliography
- About the Author