Chicago by Gaslight: A History of Chicago's Netherworld: 1880-1920

by Richard Lindberg, Bob Deckert (Illustrator)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781613737880
Publisher:	Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/01/2016
Sold by:	INDEPENDENT PUB GROUP - EPUB - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Richard C. Lindberg grew up in Chicago's Norwood Park neighborhood. His nine books include "Chicago by Gaslight: A History of the Chicago Netherworld, 1880-I 920, The White Sox Encyclopedia, "and "The Armchair Companion to chicago Sports. "He is the former editor of the "Illinois Police and Sheriff's News "and served as head writer and senior editor for the Edgar Award-winning "Encyclopedia of World Crime."

Editorial Reviews

"... lively anecdotes of the social elite, the powerful gamblers, criminals and corrupt "boodling" politicians." — Publishers Weekly


"Mr. Lindberg... has done a prodigious amount of research and has come up with a host of new and delicious details." — Chicago Sun-Times

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