Hidden history of Lincoln Park
By: Patrick Butler ; foreword by Michelle Smith, Alderman, 43rd Ward
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781626198449
Subjects: History; Histoire
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-190).
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Foreword, by Alderman Michelle Smith; title: Lincoln Park has been home to saints, sinners, geniuses, agitators - and everything in between; title: How local altar boy Johnny Weissmuller scaled Olympian heights to become lord of the jungle; title: When Al Capone was "scared enough to send the very best" (with apologies to Hallmark Cards); title: The old neighborhood always had stuff that goes bump in the night - maybe it still does!; title: After lots of skullduggery, comedian Del Close got the last laugh on the world after all; title: Joe E. Lewis wasn't playing for laughs the night he stood up to the mob - and lived to talk about it; title: Brewster apartment building proved ill-starred from the start for almost everyone involved; title: Before tony Lincoln Park got that way, Indians, escaped slaves, even Kashubians found a home; title: But not everyone was pleased when Lincoln Park started getting too "trendier than thou"; title: Elegant Crilly Court was home to budding society ladies - and more than a few ladies of the evening; title: Nearly forgotten machinery mover, bookseller, made this local land of Oz come to life; title: Old Town - now a state of mind - survived the fire, 1960s hippies, changing demographics; title: Class clashes began as soon as the first immigrant groups started settling into the "norte seid"; title: German "forty-eighters" battled for freedom in the fatherland - and beer here on Sunday; title: Neighbors dropped "neutrality in thought and deed" well before President Wilson was ready for it; title: Radicals of all sorts usually found ready audience as Europe's troubles found their way over here; title: Back in 1968, everyone got pulled into a faraway war that came home to Chicago's front yard; title: Neighborhood got name from city's biggest park where everyone, including T.R., came for a walk; title: Skittish horse got rough justice after throwing mob boss "Nails" Morton along riding path; title: Chicago's cycling craze started at least a century before today's bike-friendly city hall; title: But most just wanted to go ape over Bushman, follow as Judy the elephant walked to her cage; title: New uses continue to be found for old "fresh air sanitarium," USO site along lakefront; title: After more than a century, bodies still keep turning up in LP's supposedly empty graveyard; title: Old Viking ship gone, but not forgotten, as fans continue their long search for its new home; title: But a copy of the world's first "pleasure wheel" is still making its rounds nearby at Navy Pier; title: Long before the yuppies, Clark and Diversey area was home to Union recruits, Confederate POWs; title: How Dwight L. Moody went from selling soles to saving souls - some say he's still doing it; title: Chicago can thank a one-time Confederate ferryboat crewman for Lincoln treasures; title: Standing Lincoln statue had a startling start but still ranked among America's best statues; title: Was it environmentalism or "elitism" that left Lincoln Park Gun Club dead in the water?; title: Founder of pioneer Chicago Museum wasn't anyone's typical desk-bound paper shuffler; title: Goddess worship, witchcraft, "flirty fishing," vegetarian feasts: pick your path to Nirvana; title: Elks founder's fight for reinstatement, recognition took decades after his death; title: U.S.-born Irish president, controversial Romanian queen had very different visits on Webster Avenue; title: 1969 murders of activist pastor and his wife remain unsolved after all these years; title: "Outsider" artist Henry Darger's talent known to only a few during his lifetime; title: For many hoops fans, Ray Meyer wasn't just another basketball coach - he was The Coach; title: Widowed Chilean first lady blamed CIA coup for death of her husband, "reign of terror"; title: Children's Hospital wraps up 131 years here to begin whole new chapter of public service; title: Even "Uncle Win" never expected to see the Old Town School someday get this big; title: Cops still haven't been able to disarm Chicago aldermen despite all the talk about gun control; title: At least two Near North political careers began with a bang, ended because of "woman factor"; title: IWW had scant success promoting "one big union" but claims several lasting victories; title: How an "old Red" found new sense of purpose promoting "new patriotism" at Liberty Hall; title: Remember the Webster, Wrightwood, Buena El stops? There was a lot more service then; title: 1934 Deering plant blaze almost picked up where the Great Chicago Fire left off; title: 1901 car barn fire left hundreds out in the cold; title: Bibliography; title: About the author.