Return Again to the Scene of the Crime

by Lindberg, Richard

• ISBN13: 9781581821673
• ISBN10: 1581821670
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Cumberland House

Summary

The sequel to the 1999 bestseller "Return to the Scene of the Crime" gives fascinating glimpses of notorious crime scenes, with uncensored tours of the back alleys and boulevards where crime, scandal, natural disasters, and mayhem occurred. Maps.

Table of Contents

Frontispiece: The Man on the Sidewalk	iii
Preface: The Rest of the Story	xiii
Acknowledgments	xvii
In the Shadows of Skyscrapers: Tales of Downtown Crime	1	(84)
To even the most jaundiced eye gazing upon the majesty of downtown Chicago from the lake, the panorama of the city suggests order and a unity of purpose with its picture-perfect skyline, prime inner harbors, and necklace of greenery dividing the shoreline from the streets
Near North Confidential: The Chicago River to Old Town	85	(40)
Burlesque, booze, and barflies. The Near North Side nightclub district, world renown in former days for seamy attractions, exists today only in memory
In Pursuit of Nazis, Gangsters, and Anarchists: North Side Crime Scenes from Lincoln Park to Rogers Park	125	(80)
Crime cooks on all eight cylinders. In violent and unpredictable times, the North Side of Chicago emerged as a kind of film noir, a backdrop for an oddball assortment of kooks and killers, con men and crazy women, Nazi spies, and plotting anarchists
Crimes in High Places: The North Shore and Beyond	205	(38)
North of Rogers Park, some of the oldest, wealthiest, and most exclusive suburbs hug the windswept shoreline of Lake Michigan
Stockyard Society: The Great South Side of Chicago from Roosevelt Road to Wolf Lake	243	(90)
The history of Chicago south of Madison Street is written in the blood, toil, and sacrifice of the various tribes of people who ventured into the stockyards, planing mills, and great steel foundries dotting the lakefront
Suburban Living . . . and Dying: South Suburban Chicago	333	(24)
The suburban communities lying beyond the southern boundary of Chicago reflect the art and science of post-World War II mobility in America
Life and Death in the City: The West Side from Maxwell Street to the Suburbs	357	(68)
At the close of the nineteenth century, the West Side of Chicago was a picture-perfect ideal of gracious town and country living
Supplemental Reading	425	(11)
Parting Shots	436	(2)
About the Author	438	(3)
Index	441