Windy City Ghosts : The Haunted History of Chicago

by Kaczmarek, Dale D.; Taylor, Troy

• ISBN13: 9781892523099
• ISBN10: 1892523094
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

The president of the Ghost Research Society takes readers on a nightmarish journey into the darkest regions of the Windy City. In this stunning book, the reader will discover not only the eerie tales and stories of the city but will be amazed by the little-known incidents and true-life paranormal investigations of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Foreword	6	(3)
Troy Taylor
Introduction Welcome to Haunted Chicago	9	(3)
Dale Kaczmarek
Acknowledgments	12	(170)
Downtown Chicago Haunts
The Biograph Theater
Clarence Darrow Memorial Bridge
Field Museum of Natural History
The Fort Dearborn Massacre
John Glessner House
Graceland Cemetery
Harpo Studios and the Eastland Disaster
Hepzibah Children's Association
Holy Family Church
Jane Addam's Hull House
Adolph Luetgert House
The Murder Castle: The Herman Mudgett Home
Red Lion Pub
Peter Schuttler Mansion
St. Valentine's Day Massacre Site
Victorian House Antiques
Chicago Water Tower
North Side Haunts
Bohemian National Cemetery
Calvary Cemetery
Elisha Gray House
Fort Sheridan
Former Home of John Wayne Gacy
Gage / Pusheck House
The Hitchhiker of Palatine and Ela Roads
Kennedy Hill Road Phantom
Lake Forest College
Marge's Pub
Robinson Woods Indian Burial Grounds
Rosehill Cemetery
Charles Schweppe Mansion
St. Andrew's Inn
St. Mary's Cemetery
George Stickney Mansion
That Steak Joynt
White Cemetery
Woodstock Opera House
South Side Spirits
Animal Ghosts at 95th and Kean Avenue
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery
Bethania Cemetery
Beverly Unitarian Church.. the Irish Castle
Fairmont Hills Cemetery
German Church Road and the Grimes Sisters
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery and the Grave of Mary Alice Quinn
the 1-57 Murders
Jewish Waldheim Cemetery
LaGrange Public Library
The Ghost Lights of Maple Lake
The Moline House
Morton College
Mount Olivet Cemetery
The Orland Hills Poltergeist
Resurrection Mary
Rialto Square Theater
St. Casimir's Cemetery
St. James Sag Church and Cemetery
St. Rita of Cascia Church
Woodlawn Cemetery
West Side Haunts
Benedictine University
Channing Memorial Elementary School
Clarendon Hills Cemetery
Country House Restaurant
The Crash of Flight 191
The Ghostly Boy of St. Charles Road
The Milk Pail Restaurant
Mount Carmel Cemetery and the Ghost of the Italian Bride
Queen of Heaven Cemetery
The Mysterious Stone at the Woods' Home
Short Stories & Ghostly Fragments
The Vanishing Hitchhiker of Arlington Cemetery
Calvary Cemetery
The John Hancock Building
Hinsdale Animal Cemetery
Lourdes High School
Mary Knoll College
McCarthy House
Haunted Houses of Oak Lawn
Oak Park / River Forest High School
Raven's Grin
Ridge Cemetery
St. Turibius Church
Victorian Manor
Visitation Church
Legends and Lore
Axeman's Bridge
Headless Horseman Ghosts
Kaiser Hall
The Lincoln Park Totem Pole
Peabody's Tomb
The Glowing Green Man
The Why
Not Driver In
Notes and Sources	182	(5)
About the Author	187