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To serve and collect : Chicago politics and police corruption from the Lager Beer Riot to the Summerdale Scandal : 1855-1960 / Richard C. Lindberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lindberg, Richard C., 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Police--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Police.
- Police corruption--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Police corruption.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Politics and government.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (409 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, c1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Crooked politicians, gangsters, madams, and cops on the take: To Serve and Collect tells the story of Chicago during its formative years through the history of its legendary police department.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: An Overview of Chicago Policing
- 1. The Police and the Emerging City
- 2. Ethnicity, Fraternal Orders, and the Police
- Close Up on the Chicago Police: A Ride to Jail in the Patrol Wagon
- 3. The Failures of Reform: Chicago under the Police Commission and Civil Service
- 4. The Rule of the Club: Policing the Labor Strikes
- Close Up on the Chicago Police: Fingerprints Doom a Murderer
- 5. The Triangle and the Star: The Cronin Case
- 6. Gambling and the Police
- Close Up on the Chicago Police: The Armory Station
- Home to 100,000 Desperate Characters
- 7. A Juicy Tenderloin: Politics and Graft in the South Side Levee
- 8. The Triumph of Vice and Graft during the First Thompson Administration
- 9. The Guns of Chicago: The Police, Prohibition, and the Crime Syndicate, 1921-31
- Illustrations
- Close Up on the Chicago Police Tommy O'Connor Breaks Out
- 10. Pawns of the Machine: the Cermak-Kelly-Nash Years, 1933-47
- Close Up on the Chicago Police: Confessions of a Vice Cop
- 11. A System at Fault, 1947-60
- Appendix I: Statistical Data, 1866-1960
- Appendix II: Law Enforcement in Cook County, 1855-1960
- Notes on Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-346) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8093-8041-2
- 1-299-13250-2
- 1-4416-1936-4
- OCLC:
- 436089402
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