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  • City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago

    (By Gary Krist)

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    Author Gary Krist
    “Book Descriptions: Documents the harrowing 12-day period in 1919 Chicago during which a blimp crash, a race riot, a crippling transit strike and a sensational child murder case challenged the city's modernization efforts. By the author of The White Cascade.”

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