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Half Title Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgements Foreword, by Alderman Michelle Smith Lincoln Park Has Been Home to Saints, Sinners, Geniuses, Agitators—and Everything in Between How Local Altar Boy Johnny Weissmuller Scaled Olympian Heights to Become Lord of the Jungle When Al Capone Was “Scared Enough to Send the Very Best” (with Apologies to Hallmark Cards) The Old Neighborhood Always Had Stuff That Goes Bump in the Night—Maybe It Still Does! After Lots of Skullduggery, Comedian Del Close Got the Last Laugh on the World After All Joe E. Lewis Wasn’t Playing for Laughs the Night He Stood Up to the Mob—and Lived to Talk About It Brewster Apartment Building Proved Ill-Starred from the Start for Almost Everyone Involved Before Tony Lincoln Park Got That Way, Indians, Escaped Slaves, Even Kashubians Found a Home But Not Everyone Was Pleased When Lincoln Park Started Getting Too “Trendier Than Thou” Elegant Crilly Court Was Home to Budding Society Ladies—and More Than a Few Ladies of the Evening Nearly Forgotten Machinery Mover, Bookseller, Made This Local Land of Oz Come to Life Old Town—Now a State of Mind—Survived the Fire, 1960s Hippies, Changing Demographics Class Clashes Began as Soon as the First Immigrant Groups Started Settling into the “Norte Seid” German “Forty-Eighters” Battled for Freedom in the Fatherland— and Beer Here on Sunday Neighbors Dropped “Neutrality in Thought and Deed” Well before President Wilson Was Ready for It Radicals of All Sorts Usually Found Ready Audience as Europe’s Troubles Found Their Way over Here Back in 1968, Everyone Got Pulled into a Faraway War That Came Home to Chicago’s Front Yard Neighborhood Got Name from City’s Biggest Park Where Everyone, Including T.R., Came for a Walk Skittish Horse Got Rough Justice after Throwing Mob Boss “Nails” Morton along Riding Path Chicago’s Cycling Craze Started at Least a Century before Today’s Bike-Friendly City Hall But Most Just Wanted to Go Ape over Bushman, Follow as Judy the Elephant Walked to Her Cage New Uses Continue to Be Found for Old “Fresh Air Sanitarium,” USO Site along Lakefront After More Than a Century, Bodies Still Keep Turning Up in LP’s Supposedly Empty Graveyard Old Viking Ship Gone, but Not Forgotten, as Fans Continue Their Long Search for Its New Home But a Copy of the World’s First “Pleasure Wheel” Is Still Making Its Rounds Nearby at Navy Pier Long before the Yuppies, Clark and Diversey Area Was Home to Union Recruits, Confederate POWs How Dwight L. Moody Went from Selling Soles to Saving Souls— Some Say He’s Still Doing It Chicago Can Thank a One-time Confederate Ferryboat Crewman for Lincoln Treasures Standing Lincoln Statue Had a Startling Start but Still Ranked among America’s Best Statues Was It Environmentalism or “Elitism” That Left Lincoln Park Gun Club Dead in the Water? Founder of Pioneer Chicago Museum Wasn’t Anyone’s Typical Desk-bound Paper Shuffler Goddess Worship, Witchcraft, “Flirty Fishing,” Vegetarian Feasts: Pick Your Path to Nirvana Elks Founder’s Fight for Reinstatement, Recognition Took Decades after His Death U.S.-Born Irish President, Controversial Romanian Queen Had Very Different Visits on Webster Avenue 1969 Murders of Activist Pastor and His Wife Remain Unsolved after All These Years “Outsider” Artist Henry Darger’s Talent Known to Only a Few During His Lifetime For Many Hoops Fans, Ray Meyer Wasn’t Just Another Basketball Coach—He Was the Coach Widowed Chilean First Lady Blamed CIA Coup for Death of Her Husband, “Reign of Terror” Children’s Hospital Wraps Up 131 Years Here to Begin Whole New Chapter of Public Service Even “Uncle Win” Never Expected to See the Old Town School Someday Get This Big Cops Still Haven’t Been Able to Disarm Chicago Aldermen Despite All the Talk about Gun Control At Least Two Near North Political Careers Began with a Bang, Ended Because of “Woman Factor” IWW Had Scant Success Promoting “One Big Union” but Claims Several Lasting Victories How an “Old Red” Found New Sense of Purpose Promoting “New Patriotism” at Liberty Hall Remember the Webster, Wrightwood, Buena El Stops? There Was a Lot More Service Then 1934 Deering Plant Blaze Almost Picked Up Where the Great Chicago Fire Left Off 1901 Car Barn Fire Left Hundreds Out in the Cold Bibliography About the Author
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