Citadels of Sin

Richard C. Lindberg is an award-winning author, journalist, and lecturer who has published twenty-one books related to Chicago history, politics, true crime, criminal justice, sports,?and ethnicity, including Tales of Forgotten Chicago. He is a past president of the Society of Midland Authors and the Illinois Academy of Criminology, a past member of the Chicago Crime Commission, and a current board member of the Illinois State Historical Society.

Foreword by Dominic A. Pacyga Introduction. Overview of an Immoderate Era Prologue. An Atmosphere of Evil Part I. Ascendant Vice in Chicago and Across the Nation, 1840-1910 1. Crime and Vice Take Root in the Garden City (1840-1871) 2. Gilded Age Vice: the Rise and Fall of the Custom House Place Levee (1871-1903) 3. Chicago's South Side Levee District: The Beginnings of Segregated Vice Districts (1890-1910) 4. The West Side (Vice) Story (1875-1920) 5. The North Side: Chicago's Last Levee (1895-1980) 6. Segregated Vice in Other Illinois Cities, the US (1860-1920) and the Origins of White Slavery 7. Progressive Era Reformers Strike a First Blow: The Chicago Vice Commission (1910-1911) Part II. Twilight Years of the Levee and the Rise of Modern Gangsterism, 1910-1920 8. The Wayman Raids and the End of the Everleigh Sisters Reign (1911-1914) 9. The Levee's Last Stand: A Street Riot and the Stirrings of Vice Desegregation (1914-1920) 10. The Levee Ghost Town (1914-1930) Appendix A. Glossary of Terms Appendix B. Glossary of Personages Appendix C. Members of the Chicago Vice Commission Appendix D. The Closing Year of Segregated Vice Districts in Selected American Cities Appendix E. Prostitution and Gambling Arrests in Chicago, 1879-1920 Bibliography Notes Acknowledgments Index