Acknowledgments | p. vi |
Introduction | p. ix |
Will it Play at 40° Latitude, 89° Longitude? | p. 13 |
The Southern Cross and Old, Old Man River | |
Chicago, Who's Your Daddy? | |
Grave Robbing Didn't Play in Peoria | p. 18 |
Nulla Dies Sine Linea | |
Lost Ivy | p. 27 |
A Very Normal Spy Story | |
Are You Nuts? | |
Passin' Through | p. 37 |
Slim and None | |
Abe Stepped Here | |
A Sunday Buffett | |
The Center of a Doughnut Empire Goes Up in Smoke | |
When Law and Order Didn't Play in Peoria | |
Mayor Woodruff and the Friendly Crime Fines | |
The Shelton Gang: If We Did It, This is How We Did It | |
Crime Didn't Play in Peoria | p. 60 |
Wicked Wyatt | |
Nasty Nahas | |
"No-Name" Maddox, Food Critic | |
Hinckley's Hick Town | |
"Those" Ships Aren't Welcome in Peoria | p. 101 |
Par-A-Dice Lost | |
Build a Dock, and They Will Come | |
The Didn't Stay in Peoria ... But One Came Back | p. 106 |
The Illinois Valley Girl and the Peoria Pyre | |
Colonel Ingersoll and Archbishop Sheep | |
Sam Kinison | |
Harry the Horrible and the Birth of the Curse | |
The Icing: Philip José Farmer | |
Terrorism Doesn't Play in Peoria | p. 133 |
"The Duke" Withou the Swagger | |
When Stand-Up Didn't Play in Peoria | |
Against all Hell | |
Tragedy in the Morning | |
We are Ready | |
Prairie-Prepoped | |
The Peoria Air Guard Delivers | |
Epilosgue | p. 153 |
Bibliography | p. 154 |
Index | p. 157 |
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