Wicked northern Illinois
Subtitle: the dark side of the Prairie State
By: Troy Taylor
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781596292789
Subjects: Violent crimes; Criminals; Anecdotes; Crime; Murder; Biography; Social conditions; Victims of crimes; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-126).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A bloody history of early Illinois crime; title: The murder of Colonel Davenport; title: Stealing the president : the attempt to kidnap Abraham Lincoln's bones; title: The tragic case of Charles "Pacer" Smith; title: The body on the railroad tracks; title: Red lights on the prairie; title: Illinois gangsters : the saga of the Shelton brothers; title: Two heads in a concrete block; title: The Starved Rock murders; title: Behind the walls of Joliet Penitentiary.