Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
THE POLICE FORCE--Its Strength--Composition--Power Dominating--Duties of Defined--Population of Chicago--Nativity of--Police Enemies of Civil Service--Demoralizing Effect--Tariff on Crime--Rates on Gambling Houses, Etc.--Penalty for Refusal to Pay--Instances of Police Rates--M...
RE-ELECTION OF MAYOR--FALSE ISSUE UPON WHICH RE-ELECTED--VICES IN CHICAGO--"BLIND PIGS"--PROTECTED BY POLICE--WHERE SITUATED--HOW CONDUCTED--CLASSES--DRUG STORES, BAKERIES, BARN...
10. CHAPTER V.COMMON COUNCIL--BOODLERS--BRIBERS--COUNCIL OF 1899--POWERS OF--MISUSE OF--PRICE OF VOTES--PASSAGE OF BOODLE ORDINANCES--PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT AND BUREAUS--ILLEGAL CONTRACTS--S...
7. CHAPTER II.THE POLICE FORCE--ITS STRENGTH--COMPOSITION--POWER DOMINATING--DUTIES OF DEFINED--POPULATION OF CHICAGO--NATIVITY OF--POLICE ENEMIES OF CIVIL SERVICE--DEMORALIZING EFFECT--TARIF...
8. CHAPTER III.ALL NIGHT SALOONS--CHARACTER OF--THIEVES, THUGS AND PROSTITUTES IN--VISITORS--COUNTRY BUYERS, TRANSIENTS, DELEGATES, YOUTH AND OLD AGE--WOMEN IN--CHARACTER OF--BASEMENT SALOONS-...
6. CHAPTER I.Chicago, with its world-wide fame as the most marvelous product of American enterprise among municipal creations in the nineteenth century, with its wonderful growth, from an In...
4. CHAPTER IV.RE-ELECTION OF MAYOR--False Issue Upon Which Re-elected--Vices in Chicago--"Blind Pigs"--Protected by Police--Where Situated--How Conducted--Classes--Drug Stores, Bakeries, Barn...
2. CHAPTER II.THE POLICE FORCE--Its Strength--Composition--Power Dominating--Duties of Defined--Population of Chicago--Nativity of--Police Enemies of Civil Service--Demoralizing Effect--Tarif...
3. CHAPTER III.ALL NIGHT SALOONS--Character of--Thieves, Thugs and Prostitutes in--Visitors--Country Buyers, Transients, Delegates, Youth and Old Age--Women in--Character of--Basement Saloons-...
5. CHAPTER V.COMMON COUNCIL--Boodlers--Bribers--Council of 1899--Powers of--Misuse of--Price of Votes--Passage of Boodle Ordinances--Public Works Department and Bureaus--Illegal Contracts--S...
1. CHAPTER I.