Return Again to the Scene of the Crime

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ISBN: 9781581821673 | 1581821670
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 8/1/2001

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The sequel to the 1999 bestseller "Return to the Scene of the Crime" gives fascinating glimpses of notorious crime scenes, with uncensored tours of the back alleys and boulevards where crime, scandal, natural disasters, and mayhem occurred. Maps.

Frontispiece: The Man on the Sidewalk

iii

Preface: The Rest of the Story

xiii

Acknowledgments

xvii

In the Shadows of Skyscrapers: Tales of Downtown Crime

(84)

To even the most jaundiced eye gazing upon the majesty of downtown Chicago from the lake, the panorama of the city suggests order and a unity of purpose with its picture-perfect skyline, prime inner harbors, and necklace of greenery dividing the shoreline from the streets

Near North Confidential: The Chicago River to Old Town

(40)

Burlesque, booze, and barflies. The Near North Side nightclub district, world renown in former days for seamy attractions, exists today only in memory

In Pursuit of Nazis, Gangsters, and Anarchists: North Side Crime Scenes from Lincoln Park to Rogers Park

125

(80)

Crime cooks on all eight cylinders. In violent and unpredictable times, the North Side of Chicago emerged as a kind of film noir, a backdrop for an oddball assortment of kooks and killers, con men and crazy women, Nazi spies, and plotting anarchists

Crimes in High Places: The North Shore and Beyond

205

(38)

North of Rogers Park, some of the oldest, wealthiest, and most exclusive suburbs hug the windswept shoreline of Lake Michigan

Stockyard Society: The Great South Side of Chicago from Roosevelt Road to Wolf Lake

243

(90)

The history of Chicago south of Madison Street is written in the blood, toil, and sacrifice of the various tribes of people who ventured into the stockyards, planing mills, and great steel foundries dotting the lakefront

Suburban Living . . . and Dying: South Suburban Chicago

333

(24)

The suburban communities lying beyond the southern boundary of Chicago reflect the art and science of post-World War II mobility in America

Life and Death in the City: The West Side from Maxwell Street to the Suburbs

357

(68)

At the close of the nineteenth century, the West Side of Chicago was a picture-perfect ideal of gracious town and country living

Supplemental Reading

425

(11)

Parting Shots

436

(2)

About the Author

438

(3)

Index

441

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Return Again to the Scene of the Crime

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