Lords of the Levee

Released on by Lloyd Wendt
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  • Lords of the Levee Book Detail

  • Author : Lloyd Wendt
  • Release Date : 2005
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  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 0
  • ISBN 13 : 9780810123205
  • File Size : 27,27 MB
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Lords of the Levee by Lloyd Wendt PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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