An edition of Speaking ill of the dead (2012)

Speaking ill of the dead

jerks in Chicago history

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Globe Pequot Press
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English

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Table of Contents

John Kinzie: founding father, brawler, and killer
Harper the drunk and Stone the killer: a lush to the last, the first to be hanged
Martin Quinlan: bribes weren't all he took
Cap Hyman and George Trussell: trading bullets on Randolph
Wilbur F. Storey: the cable news loudmouth of his day
Thomas Hines: architect of conspiracy
Marshall Field: customers first, employees last
"Captain" George Wellington Streeter: commander of the battle of Garbage Hill
H. H. Holmes: the devil of murder castle
George Pullman: palace car patriarch
Kitty Adams: terror of State Street
Adolph Luetgert: sausage king of Chicago
"Bathhouse John" Coughlin: the bard of the levee
William J. Davis: corner-cutting killer
Johann Hoch: an affinity for arsenic
David D. Healy: dereliction and death at Dunning
Harry Spencer: a killer imagination
Charles Comiskey: the ego that blackened america's pastime
James Colosimo: the grandfather of the mob, a kingpin of vice
Tillie Klimek: the black widow of Little Poland
Richard Loeb: the not-so-genius killer
Big Bill Thompson: the mayor king of corruption
Dean O'Banion: assassin, hijacker, singing waiter, and florist to the mob
Al Capone: the hoodlum heard 'round the world
John Dillinger and Anna Sage: seeing red at the Biograph.

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Guilford, Conn
Other Titles
Jerks in chicago history

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
977.3/110099
Library of Congress
F548.36 .S45 2012, F548.36.S45 2012

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL25385054M
ISBN 13
9780762772919
LCCN
2012028625

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