Author: Lloyd WendtPublisher: Indianapolis, New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company [1943]
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Lords of the Levee
Author: Lloyd WendtPublisher: Indianapolis, New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company [1943]
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Lords of the Levee; The Story of Bathhouse John and Hinky Dink, by Lloyd Wendt and Herman Kogan
Author: Lloyd WendtThe Chicago Sports Reader
Author: Steven A. RiessPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025207615X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
A celebration of the fast, the strong, the agile, and the tricky throughout Chicago's storied sports history
Chicago Beer
Author: June Skinner SawyersPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439674612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Long before corner bars stitched the social fabric of Chicago's neighborhoods together, raucous pioneers like Mark Beaubien were fermenting over the untapped potential of the unbroken prairie. Take a determined saunter from the clamor of Chicago's first breweries, through the hidden passages of thousands of speakeasies and then back into the current of the contemporary craft beer revival. Follow a path plastered with portraits of infamous saloonkeepers and profiles of historic bars. Author June Sawyers serves as an expert guide, stopping every so often to collect a vintage beer label, explain an original recipe or salute the heady history that sits atop the City of Big Shoulders.
Horse Racing the Chicago Way
Author: Steven A. RiessPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815655282
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Chicago may seem a surprising choice for studying thoroughbred racing, especially since it was originally a famous harness racing town and did not get heavily into thoroughbred racing until the 1880s. However, Chicago in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was second only to New York as a center of both thoroughbred racing and off-track gambling. Horse Racing the Chicago Way shines a light on this fascinating, complicated history, exploring the role of political influence and class in the rise and fall of thoroughbred racing; the business of racing; the cultural and social significance of racing; and the impact widespread opposition to gambling in Illinois had on the sport. Riess also draws attention to the nexus that existed between horse racing, politics, and syndicate crime, as well as the emergence of neighborhood bookmaking, and the role of the national racing wire in Chicago. Taking readers from the grandstands of Chicago’s finest tracks to the underworld of crime syndicates and downtown poolrooms, Riess brings to life this understudied era of sports history.
Apuntes biograficos del ... Sr. D. I. Valdivielso
Author: José Manuel HIDALGO ESNAURRIZARPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
The First Vice Lord
Author: Arthur J. BilekPublisher: Cumberland House Publishing
ISBN: 9781581826395
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
THE FIRST VICE LORD is the story of the life and death of Big Jim Colosimo and Chicago's infamous segregated red-light district--the Levee. For the first time, the true story is told of the colorful characters who peopled the Levee from the time of the Columbian Exposition to the Roaring Twenties, clearly the most colorful period in Chicago's history. The product of five years of research through Chicago daily newspapers, magazines, and periodicals, and books on the city's history, it documents the story as it occurred, with all of the sights, sounds, and smells of that lusty, unruly era. THE FIRST VICE LORD is the story of an immigrant Italian lad who grew up in the tenements of Chicago, where he worked first as a lowly street sweeper, then as a brothel operator and vice lord, and finally as the owner of the most famous restaurant of his day. His story is told against the backdrop of an open red-light district so famous it was known to the crown heads of Europe.
Author: Louise C. Wade
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