Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction x
Part 1 The Loop and Environs 1
Chapter 1 First Phantoms 2
Fort Dearborn Massacre site 9
Robinson Woods 12
Chapter 2 The Water Tower Terror 15
Water Tower 15
Chapter 3 Richardson Returns 26
Glessner House Museum 26
Chapter 4 The Haunted Hotel 34
Congress Plaza Hotel 34
Chapter 5 The Final Curtain 39
Ford Center for the Performing Arts Oriental Theatre 39
Chodl Auditorium 50
Tivoli Theatre 51
Allstate Arena 52
Chapter 6 The Devil Baby 54
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum 58
Chapter 7 The Eastland Disaster 63
Clark Street Bridge 67
Reid Murdoch Building 68
Castle Entertainment Complex 68
Harpo Studios 70
Chapter 8 The Mummy Walks 71
Field Museum of Natural History 71
Chapter 9 Trading Secrets 76
One Financial Place Plaza 76
Chapter 10 Boo Hoo 80
Hooters restaurant 80
Part 2 The North Side and O'Hare 85
Chapter 11 Valentine Daze 86
St. Valentine's Day Massacre site 88
Frank Nitti's suicide spot 96
Biograph Theater 97
Chapter 12 Pub Crawl 99
Bucktown Pub 99
California Clipper 100
Cigars and Stripes 100
Edgewater Lounge 101
Fireside Restaurant & Lounge 101
Gold Star Bar 101
Guthries Tavern 102
Hangge-Uppe 102
Liar's Club 102
Marge's Stilt 103
The Tonic Room 103
Webster's Wine Bar 103
Chapter 13 The Wrigley Wraiths 105
Wrigley Field 105
Chapter 14 The Ghosts of Flight 191 114
American Airlines Flight 191 crash site 119
Blackhawk Estates 120
Terminal 3, Gate K5 (Chicago O'Hare International Airport) 121
Hilton Chicago O'Hare Airport 122
Part 3 The South Side 123
Chapter 15 The Headless Horseman 124
Loomis Street 125
Hickory Hills 127
Chapter 16 Dead Letter Office 129
US Post Office in Englewood (formerly "Murder Castle") 129
Chapter 17 School Spirits 139
Hancock High School 139
Hubbard High School 142
Kelvyn Park High School 142
Loyola University Chicago 143
Morton College 143
Chapter 18 The Defense Rests 145
Museum of Science and Industry 146
Jackson Park Lagoon 147
Part 4 West Side Stories and the 'Burbs 155
Chapter 19 Holy Ghosts 156
St. James at Sag Bridge Church and Cemetery 157
Visitation Church 163
St. Rita of Cascia Parish 163
Holy Family Church 165
St. Turibius Church 167
Beverly Unitarian Church 167
St. Nicholas Albanian Orthodox Church 171
St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church 171
Chapter 20 Nightmare on Elgin Avenue 173
Lobstein House 175
Kaiser Hall 176
Moline House 176
Lake Shore Place 176
Schweppe Mansion 177
Chapter 21 Boys and Ghouls 179
La Grange Public Library 179
Union League Boys and Girls Clubs-Club One 183
Chapter 22 The Ghost Car 185
Grimes sisters dump site 187
Riverside Road stop sign 188
Chapter 23 Restaurant Revenants 189
Country House 189
Hackney's Palos Park 192
Original Triple Crown Seafood Restaurant 193
Chapter 24 The Light on the Lake 194
Maple Lake 194
Warren Park Administration Building 197
Part 5 Cities of the Dead 199
Chapter 25 Grave Concerns 200
Resurrection Cemetery 202
Acacia Park Cemetery 205
Archer Woods Cemetery 206
Arlington Cemetery 207
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery 207
Bethania Cemetery 209
Bohemian National Cemetery 209
Calvary Catholic Cemetery (Evanston) 210
Calvary Catholic Cemetery (Steger) 210
Clarendon Hills Cemetery 211
Evergreen Cemetery 211
Fairmount Willow Hills Memorial Park Graceland Cemetery 212
Hinsdale Animal Cemetery 213
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery 213
Mount Auburn Cemetery 214
Mount Carmel Cemetery 214
Mount Olivet Cemetery 215
Queen of Heaven Cemetery 216
Rosehill Cemetery 217
Sacred Heart Cemetery 217
St. Casimir Catholic Cemetery 218
Waldheim Cemetery 218
Woodlawn Cemetery 219
Appendix A Second City Sources 221
Appendix B Ghost Tours 232
Appendix C Windy City Whereabouts 239
Appendix D Gone but Not Forgotten 265
Appendix E Maps 279
About the Author 290
