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The wicked city : Chicago from Kenna to Capone / Curt Johnson and R. Craig Sautter ; new introduction by Roger Ebert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Curt, 1928-2008.
- Standardized Title:
- Wicked city Chicago
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chicago (Ill.)--History.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Chicago (Ill.)--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 390 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First Da Capo Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Da Capo Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- The Wicked City is an account of Chicago's vice, crime, capitalism, and corruption from Pierre the Mole, who sold whiskey to the Indians, through Johnny Torrio and Al Capone, who bootlegged a Great Lake's worth of booze during the Roaring Twenties. Chicago's drive for wealth and power in this fifty-year span are evoked through spirited accounts of the careers of its leading tycoons - such as Charles Yerkes, Marshall Field, George Pullman, and Big Bill Thompson - and its leading gangsters: the Terrible Gennas, Jim Colosino, Dion O'Banion, Diamond Joe Esposito, Johnny Torrio, and Al Capone. The Chicago portrayed here is raw, real, and vital; its raucousness, lawlessness, ebullience, and greed become almost poetic.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Wicked city Chicago. Chicago : December Press, c1994.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-380) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0306808218
- OCLC:
- 37457928
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