To serve and collect : Chicago politics and police corruption from the Lager Beer Riot to the Summerdale Scandal /
Saved in:
| Author / Creator: | Lindberg, Richard C., 1953- |
|---|---|
| Imprint: | New York : Praeger, 1991. |
| Description: | xi, 366 p., [16] p. of plates : ports., ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1097713 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- The Police and the Emerging City
- Ethnicity, Fraternal Orders and the Police
- Close Up on the Chicago Police: A Ride to Jail in the Patrol Wagon
- The Failures of Reform: Chicago under the Police Commission and Civil Service
- The Rule of the Club: Policing the Labor Strikes
- Close Up on the Chicago Police: Fingerprints Doom a Murderer
- The Triangle and the Star: The Cronin Case Gambling and the Police
- Close Up on the Chicago Police: The Armory Station, Home to 100,000
- Desperate Characters A Juicy Tenderloin: Politics and Graft in the South Side Levee
- The Triumph of Vice and Graft during the First Thompson Administration
- The Guns of Chicago: The Police, Prohibition, and the Crime Syndicate, 1921-31
- Close Up on the Chicago Police: Tommy O'Connor Breaks Out
- Pawns of the Machine: The Cermak-Kelly-Nash Years, 1933-47
- Close Up on the Chicago Police: Confessions of a Vice Cop
- A System at Fault, 1947-60
- Appendixes
- Bibliography
- Index