Contents
Introduction: Twenty-One Tales of Old Chicago
Chapter 1. The Brothers Booth
Chapter 2. The Family O’Leary and the Rest of the Story
Chapter 3. Four Butchers Trying to Go to Heaven
Chapter 4. Elisha Gray and the Invention of the Telephone
Chapter 5. Crime and Punishment and the First Policewoman
Chapter 6. Where Time Began
Chapter 7. The Scarlet Letter Verdict
Chapter 8. The Lakefront Forever Open, Clear, and Free
Chapter 9. The Haunting of the Schuttler House
Chapter 10. Stars and Bars and the Symbol of a City
Chapter 11. America’s First Automobile Race
Chapter 12. The Rouse Simmons and Chicago’s FirstChristmas Tree
Chapter 13. Wrigley Field before the Cubs
Chapter 14. The Last Supper . . . Almost
Chapter 15. The Leaning Tower Why?
Chapter 16. A World’s Fair of Railroading
Chapter 17. The Windy City Songbird
Chapter 18. How Richard J. Daley Saved the St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Chapter 19. He Ran for His Life
Chapter 20. All in a Hard Day’s Night
Chapter 21. Humanity in the Heartland
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index