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

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1996
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Chicago by Gaslight 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. Interspersed with major chapters on the Haymarket riot, the gamblers' wars, the notorious levee red-light district and instutionalized graft, are briefer chapters: the tragic predicament of a pregnant woman whose lover jilts her; the newspaper wars of the Annenberg brothers; a beach outing which becomes an ugly race riot; a serial killer, the extent of whose crimes is still unknown.

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Chicago by Gaslight 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. Interspersed with major chapters on the Haymarket riot, the gamblers' wars, the notorious levee red-light district and instutionalized graft, are briefer chapters: the tragic predicament of a pregnant woman whose lover jilts her; the newspaper wars of the Annenberg brothers; a beach outing which becomes an ugly race riot; a serial killer, the extent of whose crimes is still unknown.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
Edition: New ed.
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
Published: 01 May 1996
ISBN 10: 0897334213
ISBN 13: 9780897334211

Media 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

Author Bio

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.