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Return again to the scene of the crime : a guide to even more infamous places in Chicago / Richard Lindberg.
- Title
- Return again to the scene of the crime : a guide to even more infamous places in Chicago / Richard Lindberg.
- Author
- Lindberg, Richard C., 1953-
- Publication
- Nashville, Tenn. : Cumberland House, c2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | F548.18 .L495 2001 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xv, 451 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Presents an uncensored neighborhood-by-neighborhood guidebook to the back alleys and boulevards of Chicago where some of the most infamous events of the city's criminal past occurred. Capone, Dillinger, and other organized crime figures have left an indelible imprint on the Windy City. Visit the secret hideouts of Nazi saboteurs, anarchist plotters, charlatans, fakers, gangsters, and even a love-sick matron dubbed the "Torso Killer." See up close the murdering matrimonial bluebeard Johann Hoch and probe the unsolved mysteries surrounding the disappearance of candy heiress Helen Brach, the sinking of the "Christmas Tree Ship, " and dozens of famous gangland "rubouts."
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- travel guidebooks.
- Guidebooks
- History
- Tours
- Guides touristiques.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-434) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Frontispiece: the man on the sidewalk -- Preface: the rest of the story -- Acknowledgments -- In the shadows of skyscrapers: tales of downtown crime -- Near north confidential: the Chicago River to Old Town -- Ln pursuit of Nazis, gangsters, and anarchists: North Side crime scenes from Lincoln Park to Rogers Park -- Crimes in high places: the North Shore and beyond -- Stockyard society: the great South Side of Chicago from Roosevelt Road to Wolf Lake -- Suburban living . . . and dying: south suburban Chicago -- Life and death in the city: the West Side from Maxwell Street to the suburbs.
- ISBN
- 1581821670 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2001032314
- OCLC
- 46959579
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library