Chicago by Gaslight
eBook - ePub

Chicago by Gaslight

A History of Chicago's Netherworld: 1880-1920

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Chicago by Gaslight

A History of Chicago's Netherworld: 1880-1920

About this book

This book revises the picture of the glittering Chicago of impressive mansions and museums; it exposes the city's corrupt underbelly and the realities of life in an age which is often assumed to have been simpler and more moral than ours. Includes chapters on the Haymarket riot, the gamblers' wars, the notorious levee red-light district and institutionalized graft.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Preface
  8. I. Derby Day, 1885
  9. II. Haymarket
  10. III. The Boodlers and the Great Escape
  11. IV. 1896: The Summer of Silver and Gold
  12. V. A New Century, 1901
  13. VI. Low Life in the Levee
  14. VII. Interlude: Love and Betrayal in the City
  15. VIII. Bombs, Gamblers and Newspaper Wars
  16. IX. 1919: The Summer of Lost Innocence
  17. Appendix
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Photographs and illustrations between Pages 110–11