Lords of the Levee
Lords of the Levee

Author: Lloyd Wendt

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780810123205

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Winner of 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award-Certificate of Excellence In the early twentieth century, John Coughlin and Mike Kenna ruled Chicago's First Ward, the lucrative lakefront territory and nerve center of the city. It was one of the most infamous havens for vice in the entire country, home to gambling palaces with marble floors and mahogany bars, to a mini-city of thugs and prostitutes and down-and-outers, to dives and saloons of every description and a few beyond description. In short, the First was a gold mine. In a city where money talked, it made boisterous Bathhouse John and the laconic Hinky Dink Kenna the most powerful men in town. This classic of Chicago-style journalism traces the careers of these two operators as they rose to the top of the city's political world.

The Chicago Sports Reader
The Chicago Sports Reader

Author: Steven A. Riess

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 025207615X

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A celebration of the fast, the strong, the agile, and the tricky throughout Chicago's storied sports history

Lords of the Levee
Lords of the Levee

Author: Lloyd Wendt

Publisher: Indianapolis, New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company [1943]

Published: 1943

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13:

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Chicago Beer: A History of Brewing, Public Drinking and the Corner Bar
Chicago Beer: A History of Brewing, Public Drinking and the Corner Bar

Author: June Skinner Sawyers

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2022-03

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 146714925X

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Drinking in the Windy City has deep roots. Long before corner bars stitched the social fabric of Chicago's neighborhoods together, raucous pioneers like Mark Beaubien were fermenting over the untapped potential of the unbroken prairie. Take a determined saunter from the clamor of Chicago's first breweries, through the hidden passages of thousands of speakeasies and then back into the current of the contemporary craft beer revival. Follow a path plastered with portraits of infamous saloonkeepers and profiles of historic bars. Author June Sawyers serves as an expert guide, stopping very so often to collect a vintage beer label, explain an original recipe or salute the heady history that sits atop the City of Big Shouders. --Back cover.