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

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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.

  eISBN: 978-1-58836-643-6

  LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

  Abbott, Karen.

  Sin in the Second City : madams, ministers, playboys, and the battle for America’s soul / Karen Abbott.

  p. cm.

  Includes bibliographical references.

  1. Prostitution—Illinois—Chicago. 2. Brothels—Illinois—Chicago. 3. Everleigh Club. 4. Everleigh, Ada. 5. Everleigh, Minna. I. Title.

  HQ146.C4A23 2007

  306.7409773'1109041—dc22

  2006051878

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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

 

 

 


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