Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul

by Karen Abbott

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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).