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Authors: Karen Abbott
Tags: #History - General History, #Everleigh; Minna, #History: American, #Chicago, #United States - 20th Century (1900-1945), #United States - State & Local - Midwest, #Brothels, #Prostitution, #Illinois, #History - U.S., #Human Sexuality, #Social History, #Biography & Autobiography, #General, #Illinois - Local History, #History
“Wages and Sin.” Editorial.
Literary Digest,
March 22, 1913.
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City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
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The Sunday Gentleman.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965.
Ward, Geoffrey C.
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.
New York: Knopf, 2004.
Washburn, Charles.
Come into My Parlor: A Biography of the Aristocratic Everleigh Sisters of Chicago.
New York: Knickerbocker Publishing, 1936.
Washburn, Josie.
The Underworld Sewer: A Prostitute Reflects on Life in the Trade,
1871–1909. Omaha, NE: Washburn Publishing Co., 1909.
Weinberg, Arthur, and Lila Weinberg, eds.
The Muckrakers.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1961.
Wendt, Lloyd, and Herman Kogan.
Lords of the Levee: The Story of Bathhouse John and Hinky Dink.
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943.
Whitlock, Brand.
Forty Years of It.
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1913.
———. “The White Slave.”
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(February 1914).
Williams, F. B. “Social Bonds in the Black Belt of Chicago.”
Charities
15, October 7, 1905.
Wilson, Samuel Paynter.
Chicago and Its Cess Pools of Infamy.
Chicago: n.p., 1911.
———.
The Story of Lena Murphy, the White Slave.
Chicago: n.p., 1910.
Winick, Charles, and Paul Kinsie.
The Lively Commerce: Prostitution in the United States.
Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971.
Woods Hampton, Margaret.
Descendants of John Early of Virginia(1729–1774)
. Larchmont, NY: n.p., 1973.
Woodward, Harold R.
Major General James Lawson Kemper, C.S.A.: The Confederacy’s Forgotten Son.
Natural Bridge Station, VA: Rockbridge Publishing, 1993.
“World Wide War on Vice.” Editorial.
The Survey,
July 27, 1912.
I
LLUSTRATION AND
P
HOTOGRAPH
C
REDITS
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.
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.
A
BOUT THE
A
UTHORK
AREN
A
BBOTT
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
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