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ILLUSTRATION AND PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS
Front Matter Chicago History Museum. State Street, north from Madison Street, circa 1907 (ICHi-19294).
Front Matter Chicago History Museum. Minna Everleigh (ICHi-34792) and Ada Everleigh (ICHi-34791).
Chapter 1 From Clifford G. Roe, The Great War on White Slavery; or, Fighting for the Protection of Our Girls (1911).
Chapter 2 From Ernest Bell, ed., War on the White Slave Trade: Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls (1910).
Chapter 3 From “The Everleigh Club, Illustrated,” published in 1911 by Minna Everleigh. Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, Illinois.
Chapter 4 From War on the White Slave Trade.
Chapter 5 From “The Everleigh Club, Illustrated.” Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.
Chapter 6 From The Great War on White Slavery.
Chapter 7 Chicago History Museum. Bathhouse John Coughlin (DN-0054054) and Hinky Dink Kenna (DN-0077328).
Chapter 8 From The Great War on White Slavery.
Chapter 9 From “The Everleigh Club, Illustrated.” Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.
Chapter 10 From The Great War on White Slavery.
Chapter 11 From the “Vic Shaw Family Album.” The Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Chapter 12 From The Great War on White Slavery.
Chapter 13 Chicago History Museum. Ike Bloom (DN-0063276).
Chapter 14 From “The Everleigh Club, Illustrated.” Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.
Chapter 15 Chicago History Museum. Mona Marshall (DN-0005023).
Chapter 16 From The Great War on White Slavery.
Chapter 17 From The Great War on White Slavery.
Chapter 18 From “The Everleigh Club, Illustrated.” Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.
Chapter 19 From The Great War on White Slavery.
Chapter 20 Chicago History Museum. The Coliseum (DN-0007103).
Chapter 21 From War on the White Slave Trade.
Chapter 22 Belle Schreiber. The Langum Family Collection, David J. Langum, Sr. Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.
Chapter 23 From The Great War on White Slavery.
Chapter 24 From The Great War on White Slavery.
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p; Chapter 25 From The Great War on White Slavery.
Chapter 26 From War on the White Slave Trade.
Chapter 27 Chicago History Museum. Vic Shaw (DN-0055519).
Chapter 28 From The Great War on White Slavery.
Chapter 29 From ‘The Everleigh Club, Illustrated.” Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.
Chapter 30 Chicago History Museum. Carter Harrison (DN-0009161).
Chapter 31 Chicago History Museum. John McWeeny (DN-0057767).
Chapter 32 From “The Everleigh Club, Illustrated.” Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.
Chapter 33 From The Great War on White Slavery.
Chapter 34 Chicago History Museum. Big Jim Colosimo (DN-0063234).
Chapter 35 Chicago History Museum. John Wayman (DN-0007386).
Chapter 36 Photo by Gerald W. Fauth III.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
KAREN ABBOTT worked as a journalist on the staffs of Philadelphia magazine and Philadelphia Weekly, and has written for Salon.com and other publications. A native of Philadelphia, she now lives in Atlanta, where she’s at work on her next book. Visit her online at www.sininthesecondcity.com.
Copyright © 2007 by Karen Abbott
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Sin in the Second City : madams, ministers, playboys, and the battle for America’s soul / Karen Abbott.
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1. Prostitution—Illinois—Chicago. 2. Brothels—Illinois—Chicago. 3. Everleigh Club. 4. Everleigh, Ada. 5. Everleigh, Minna. I. Title.
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