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Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World
Embark on a gripping journey through the underbelly of urban life with Wooldridge's compelling memoir, "Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World." Join Wooldridge as he recounts his experiences navigating the treacherous streets of the "Wickedest City," offering readers a firsthand glimpse into the world of crime, corruption, and intrigue. As Wooldridge shares his tales from two decades on the front lines of law enforcement, he pulls back the curtain on the dark underbelly of urban society. From the seedy back alleys to the lavish mansions of the elite, each chapter is a riveting portrait of a city in the grip of vice and violence. But amidst the chaos and danger lies a qu...
The Grafters of America
Excerpt from The Grafters of America: Who They Are and How They Work Detective Clifton R. Wooldridge and his work have been known to me ever since I have been state's attorney. He has. Been instrumental in producing evidence in a large number of cases against keepers of disreputable houses and proprietors of gambling resorts. To which work he has been giving his exclusive attention under the direction of the police chief. It is with pleasure that I am able to say that Detective Wooldridge has conducted all his cases'with zeal and intelligence, and I know that he is one of the most energetic oflicers on the Chicago police force. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thous...
Annual Report - Chicago Civil Service Commission
Vols. for 1895- include Chicago. Civil Service Commission. Minutes of the Commission.
I've Got to Make My Livin'
For many years, the interrelated histories of prostitution and cities have perked the ears of urban scholars, but until now the history of urban sex work has dealt only in passing with questions of race. In I’ve Got to Make My Livin’, Cynthia Blair explores African American women’s sex work in Chicago during the decades of some of the city’s most explosive growth, expanding not just our view of prostitution, but also of black women’s labor, the Great Migration, black and white reform movements, and the emergence of modern sexuality. Focusing on the notorious sex districts of the city’s south side, Blair paints a complex portrait of black prostitutes as conscious actors and histor...
Barbarian Architecture
A richly visual architectural history and theory of modernity that reexamines Thorstein Veblen’s classic text The Theory of the Leisure Class through the lens of Chicago in the 1890s. An important critic of modern culture, American economist Thorstein Veblen is best known for the concept of “conspicuous consumption,” the ostentatious and wasteful display of goods in the service of social status—a term he coined in his 1899 classic The Theory of the Leisure Class. In the field of architectural history, scholars have employed Veblen in support of a wide range of arguments about modern architecture, but never has he attracted a comprehensive and critical treatment from the viewpoint of ...
Becoming the Second City
Becoming the Second City examines the development of Chicago's press and analyzes coverage of key events in its history to call attention to the media's impact in shaping the city's cultural and historical landscape. In concise, extensively documented prose, Richard Junger illustrates how nineteenth century newspapers acted as accelerants that boosted Chicago's growth in its early history by continually making and remaking the city's image for the public. Junger argues that the press was directly involved in Chicago's race to become the nation's most populous city, a feat it briefly accomplished during the mid-1890s before the incorporation of Greater New York City irrevocably recast Chicago...
The Science of Deception
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans were fascinated with fraud. P. T. Barnum artfully exploited the American yen for deception, and even Mark Twain championed it, arguing that lying was virtuous insofar as it provided the glue for all interpersonal intercourse. But deception was not used solely to delight, and many fell prey to the schemes of con men and the wiles of spirit mediums. As a result, a number of experimental psychologists set themselves the task of identifying and eliminating the illusions engendered by modern, commercial life. By the 1920s, however, many of these same psychologists had come to depend on deliberate misdirection and deceitful stimul...
