Author: Lloyd WendtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Lords of the Levee; The Story of Bathhouse John and Hinky Dink, by Lloyd Wendt and Herman Kogan
Author: Lloyd WendtLords of the Levee
Author: Lloyd WendtPublisher: Indianapolis, New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company [1943]
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Capone
Author: Laurence BergreenPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439128456
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
In this brilliant history of Prohibition and its most notorious gangster, acclaimed biographer Laurence Bergreen takes us to the gritty streets of Chicago where Al Capone forged his sinister empire. Bergreen shows the seedy and glamorous sides of the age, the rise of Prohibition, the illicit liquor trade, the battlefield that was Chicago. Delving beyond the Capone mythology. Bergreen finds a paradox: a coldblooded killer, thief, pimp, and racketeer who was also a devoted son and father; a self-styled Robin Hood who rose to the top of organized crime. Capone is a masterful portrait of an extraordinary time and of the one man who reigned supreme over it all, Al Capone.
Gambling in America
Author: United States. Commission on the Review of the National Policy Toward GamblingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gambling
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
Book Description
The Third Coast
Author: Thomas L. DyjaPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143125095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Winner of the Chicago Tribune‘s 2013 Heartland Prize A critically acclaimed history of Chicago at mid-century, featuring many of the incredible personalities that shaped American culture Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to-coast journey included a stop in Chicago, and this flow of people and commodities made it the crucible for American culture and innovation. In luminous prose, Chicago native Thomas Dyja re-creates the story of the city in its postwar prime and explains its profound impact on modern America—from Chess Records to Playboy, McDonald’s to the University of Chicago. Populated with an incredible cast of characters, including Mahalia Jackson, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Chuck Berry, Sun Ra, Simone de Beauvoir, Nelson Algren, Gwendolyn Brooks, Studs Turkel, and Mayor Richard J. Daley, The Third Coast recalls the prominence of the Windy City in all its grandeur.
The Kosher Capones
Author: Joe KrausPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501747320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago's Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts of Benjamin "Zuckie the Bookie" Zuckerman, last of the independent West Side Jewish bosses, and Lenny Patrick, eventual head of the Syndicate's "Jewish wing." These two men linked the early Jewish gangsters of the neighborhoods of Maxwell Street and Lawndale to the notorious Chicago Outfit that emerged from Al Capone's criminal confederation. Focusing on the murder of Zuckerman by Patrick, Kraus introduces us to the different models of organized crime they represented, a raft of largely forgotten Jewish gangsters, and the changing nature of Chicago's political corruption. Hard-to-believe anecdotes of corrupt politicians, seasoned killers, and in-over-their-heads criminal operators spotlight the magnitude and importance of Jewish gangsters to the story of Windy City mob rule. With an eye for the dramatic, The Kosher Capones takes us deep inside a hidden society and offers glimpses of the men who ran the Jewish criminal community in Chicago for more than sixty years.
The Reckless Decade
Author: H.W. BrandsPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226071162
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
A famous historian demonstrates that one can learn a lot about the contradictions that lie at the heart of America today by looking at them through the lens of the 1890s.
Chicago Beer: A History of Brewing, Public Drinking and the Corner Bar
Author: June Skinner SawyersPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 146714925X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Drinking in the Windy City has deep roots. 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 very so often to collect a vintage beer label, explain an original recipe or salute the heady history that sits atop the City of Big Shouders. --Back cover.
The Jungle
Author: Upton SinclairPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252014802
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
A story of the immigrant workers on the great Chicago meat companies' assembly lines, showing the dangerous working and living conditions, and the lack of support for the workers and their families by the ethnic, religious, and union institutions.
Chicago by Gaslight
Author: Richard LindbergPublisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613737874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
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.