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The Gangs of Chicago:
An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld by
Herbert
Asbury
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- Paperback: 432 pages ; Dimensions (in
inches): 1.15 x 8.22 x 5.48
- Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press; ISBN:
1560254548; (September 2002)
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Book Description
This classic history of crime
tells how Chicago’s underworld earned—and kept—its reputation.
Recounting the lives of such notorious denizens as
the original Mickey Finn, the mass murderer H. H. Holmes, and the three
Car Barn Bandits, Asbury reveals life as it was lived in the criminal
districts of the Levee, Hell’s Half-Acre, the Bad Lands, Little Cheyenne,
Custom House Place, and the Black Hole.
His description of Chicago’s infamous red light district—where
the brothels boasted opulence unheard of before or since—vividly captures
the wicked splendor that was Chicago.
The Gangs of Chicago spans from the time "Slab Town"
was settled to Prohibition days.
The story of Chicago’s golden age of crime climaxes
with a dramatic account of the careers of the "biggest of the Big Shots":
Big Jim Colosimo, Terrible Johnny Torrio, and the elusive Al Capone.
Photographs and illustrations round out this telling
of Chicago's early underworld. "Still the most detailed, reliable, and
readable account of the nether side of Chicago’s first century, deserves
reading and rereading...."—Perry R. Duis, Chicago historian
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