The Vice Bondage of a Great City
Author: Robert O. Harland
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 222
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Author: Robert O. Harland
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 222
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Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2016-06-23
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781318069538
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Harland
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-01-21
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781983911354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished in 1912, this is a treatise on all the corruption and vice in the city of Chicago. Includes voting, prostitution, sex trafficking, alcohol, police and more.
Author: Robert O. Harland
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-03-10
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781507595749
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"[...]would stand outside the gates, smile in triumph and speak this,—the living, shameful, naked truth: This is the CITY ACCURSED! This is the CITY OF THE LIVING DAMNED! This is the CITY OF MY DESIRE! This is the CITY AFTER MY OWN HEART! VICE, CRIME, CORRUPTION RULE:—MY TRIUMVIRATE! This is THE MOST WICKED CITY IN THE WORLD![...]".
Author: Donald L. Miller
Publisher: Rosetta Books
Published: 2014-04-09
Total Pages: 1084
ISBN-13: 0795339852
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A wonderfully readable account of Chicago’s early history” and the inspiration behind PBS’s American Experience (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). Depicting its turbulent beginnings to its current status as one of the world’s most dynamic cities, City of the Century tells the story of Chicago—and the story of America, writ small. From its many natural disasters, including the Great Fire of 1871 and several cholera epidemics, to its winner-take-all politics, dynamic business empires, breathtaking architecture, its diverse cultures, and its multitude of writers, journalists, and artists, Chicago’s story is violent, inspiring, passionate, and fascinating from the first page to the last. The winner of the prestigious Great Lakes Book Award, given to the year’s most outstanding books highlighting the American heartland, City of the Century has received consistent rave reviews since its publication in 1996, and was made into a six-hour film airing on PBS’s American Experience series. Written with energetic prose and exacting detail, it brings Chicago’s history to vivid life. “With City of the Century, Miller has written what will be judged as the great Chicago history.” —John Barron, Chicago Sun-Times “Brims with life, with people, surprise, and with stories.” —David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of John Adams and Truman “An invaluable companion in my journey through Old Chicago.” —Erik Larson, New York Times–bestselling author of The Devil in the White City
Author: Arthur J. Bilek
Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781581826395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE FIRST VICE LORD is the story of the life and death of Big Jim Colosimo and Chicago's infamous segregated red-light district--the Levee. For the first time, the true story is told of the colorful characters who peopled the Levee from the time of the Columbian Exposition to the Roaring Twenties, clearly the most colorful period in Chicago's history. The product of five years of research through Chicago daily newspapers, magazines, and periodicals, and books on the city's history, it documents the story as it occurred, with all of the sights, sounds, and smells of that lusty, unruly era. THE FIRST VICE LORD is the story of an immigrant Italian lad who grew up in the tenements of Chicago, where he worked first as a lowly street sweeper, then as a brothel operator and vice lord, and finally as the owner of the most famous restaurant of his day. His story is told against the backdrop of an open red-light district so famous it was known to the crown heads of Europe.
Author: Joanne J. Meyerowitz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1991-03-12
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0226521982
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sociological study of independent women employed outside the home in the years between 1880 and 1930 when women were traditionally expected to stay home until they married.
Author: Mara Laura Keire
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2010-03-01
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0801898773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMara L. Keire’s history of red-light districts in the United States offers readers a fascinating survey of the business of pleasure from the 1890s through the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. Anti-vice reformers in the late nineteenth century accepted that complete eradication of disreputable pleasure was impossible. Seeking a way to regulate rather than eliminate prostitution, alcohol, drugs, and gambling, urban reformers confined sites of disreputable pleasure to red-light districts in cities throughout the United States. They dismissed the extremes of prohibitory law and instead sought to limit the impact of vice on city life through realistic restrictive measures. Keire’s thoughtful work examines the popular culture that developed within red-light districts, as well as efforts to contain vice in such cities as New Orleans; Hartford, Connecticut; New York City; Macon, Georgia; San Francisco; and El Paso, Texas. Keire describes the people and practices in red-light districts, reformers' efforts to limit their impact on city life, and the successful closure of the districts during World War I. Her study extends into Prohibition and discusses the various effects that scattering vice and banning alcohol had on commercial nightlife.