by Karen Abbott
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.
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
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Random House and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
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Abbott, Karen.
Sin in the Second City : madams, ministers, playboys, and the battle for America’s soul / Karen Abbott.
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Includes bibliographical references.
1. Prostitution—Illinois—Chicago. 2. Brothels—Illinois—Chicago. 3. Everleigh Club. 4. Everleigh, Ada. 5. Everleigh, Minna. I. Title.
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Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
State Steet...
Author’s Note: The Girls Who Disappeared
Cast of Characters
Photos
Prologue: Angels of the Line
PART ONE
THE SCARLET SISTERS EVERLEIGH
Striped Skunk and Wild Onions
Another Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Getting Everleighed
The Demon of Lust Lies in Wait
Lovely Little Lies
The Stories Everyone Knew
Lords and Ladies of the Levee
Great in Religion, Great in Sin
Knowing Your Balzac
Invocation
Millionaire Playboy Shot–Accident or Murder?
PART TWO
FLESH AND BONE, BODY AND SOUL
Midnight Toil and Peril
Ultra Décolleté and Other Evils
The Brilliant Entrance to Hell Itself
The Tragedy of Mona Marshall
Men and Their Baser Mischiefs
Dispatch from the U.S. Immigration Commission
More Immoral Than Heathen China
The Organizer
It Don’t Never Get Good Until Three in the Morning
Dispatch from the U.S. Immigration Commission
Judgment Days
Have You a Girl to Spare?
Dispatch from the U.S. Immigration Commission
So Many Nice Young Men
Immoral Purposes, Whatever Those Are
PART THREE
FIGHTING FOR THE PROTECTION OF OUR GIRLS
Millionaire Playboy Dead–Morphine or Madam?
Girls Going Wrong
A Lost Soul
The Social Evil in Chicago
Painted, Peroxided, Bedizened
You Get Everything in a Lifetime
Dangerous Elements
Just How Wicked
Fallen Is Babylon
Little Lost Sister
Acknowledgments
Notes and Sources
Bibliography
Illustration and Photograph Credits
About the Author
Copyright