Chicago by gaslight
Subtitle: a history of Chicago's netherworld, 1880-1920
By: Richard Lindberg.
Contributors: Lindberg, Richard, 1953-
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Crime -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.; Political corruption -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.; Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 1875-; Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions.; Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs.
Description: A history of Chicago from the Gilded Age through 1919, focusing on the netherworld as it existed in the city before Prohibition.
Notes: Includes bibliography (p. 221-225) and index.
Rev. ed. of: Chicago ragtime.