Wicked Milwaukee

The Cream City of yesteryear was a dingy haven for scofflaws and villains. Red—light districts peppered downtown's landscape, but none had the enduring allure of River Street, where Kitty Williams and Mary Kingsley operated high—class brothels. Chinese opium dens flourished in the backrooms of laundries. The demise of the Whiskey Ring brought down local distillers in a nationwide scandal th...