Citadels of Sin

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