Speaking ill of the dead
Subtitle: jerks in Chicago history
By: Adam Selzer
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780762772919
Subjects: Outlaws; Criminals; Anecdotes; Rogues and vagabonds; Biography; History
Other titles: Jerks in chicago history
Table of contents: title: John Kinzie: founding father, brawler, and killer; title: Harper the drunk and Stone the killer: a lush to the last, the first to be hanged; title: Martin Quinlan: bribes weren't all he took; title: Cap Hyman and George Trussell: trading bullets on Randolph; title: Wilbur F. Storey: the cable news loudmouth of his day; title: Thomas Hines: architect of conspiracy; title: Marshall Field: customers first, employees last; title: "Captain" George Wellington Streeter: commander of the battle of Garbage Hill; title: H. H. Holmes: the devil of murder castle; title: George Pullman: palace car patriarch; title: Kitty Adams: terror of State Street; title: Adolph Luetgert: sausage king of Chicago; title: "Bathhouse John" Coughlin: the bard of the levee; title: William J. Davis: corner-cutting killer; title: Johann Hoch: an affinity for arsenic; title: David D. Healy: dereliction and death at Dunning; title: Harry Spencer: a killer imagination; title: Charles Comiskey: the ego that blackened america's pastime; title: James Colosimo: the grandfather of the mob, a kingpin of vice; title: Tillie Klimek: the black widow of Little Poland; title: Richard Loeb: the not-so-genius killer; title: Big Bill Thompson: the mayor king of corruption; title: Dean O'Banion: assassin, hijacker, singing waiter, and florist to the mob; title: Al Capone: the hoodlum heard 'round the world; title: John Dillinger and Anna Sage: seeing red at the Biograph.