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Wicked Northern Illinois - The Dark Side of the Prairie State

By Troy Taylor

Book information

Publisher
The History Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9781614232209, 9781596292789, 2010031975
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1896509 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
130\0
Time added
2023-11-25 18:08:46

Description

From the secrets of Joliet Penitentiary to the ferocious gunfights between the Ku Klux Klan and the Shelton Gang, Troy Taylor takes the measure of the dishonest sweat and innocent blood poured into the prairies of Northern Illinois. Meet the "fallen angels" of Decatur's red-light district, the Springfield counterfeiters who bungled stealing Lincoln's bones and the Aurora man who propped up his porch with the heads of his wife and brother-in-law. And if you dare, eavesdrop on the chilling confession of a man who left a dancer's corpse to the mercy of the railroad tracks: "So, I pat them on the cheek, call them sweet names, and kill them."

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