In this serious yet entertaining book, historian Richard Carl Lindberg probes unexplored avenues of Chicago history and presents the first in-depth history of the Chicago Police Department in over a century. The book traces the stormy history of the department from the 1850s to the Summerdale Scandal of the near present. Interspersed with the major chapters about the chaotic struggle between reform and the machine are short, intimate vignettes: the Armory Station, a gray, somber fortress that housed some of Chicago's most desperate characters for over thirty years; Francis O'Neill, Chicago's turn-of-the-century police chief who collected Irish folk songs and transcribed them into sheet music; the first fingerprint conviction in Cook County in which a man paid the ultimate price; and a retrospective look at some of the most infamous murder cases of the century and how the police solved them.Lindberg discusses the tie between politics, organized crime, vice, and the police department. He presents a history of Chicago politics and law enforcement in chronological order and recounts pivotal events in Chicago history in the police context. The book reveals how police corruption in Chicago was the result of the political drag on the department; the pernicious influence of meddling aldermen and vice operatives that prevented the police from carrying out their sworn duties in a forthright manner. Lindberg examines the lack of central authority over the police department; police superintendents were traditionally weak, subservient figures to the mayor, unable, and often unwilling to exercise control over the bureaucracy. Students and scholars of history, criminal justice, Chicago history, and law enforcement will find To Serve and Collect provocative reading.

To Serve and Collect: Chicago Politics and Police Corruption from the Lager Beer Riot to the Summerdale Scandal

History

Lindberg, Richard

Americas

Praeger

Chicago. xxvi, 231 p. ; 16 cm. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. Includes index .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 0829409270 (alk. paper)

Quotable Chicago

Linberg, Richard C.

Loyola Pr

Lindberg, an accomplished local historian and true crime writer, presents a fascinating story of two contemporaneous serial killers, both weaving marriage and murder in and around Chicago during the 1890s and 1900s. Johann Hoch was a debonair bigamist and wife killer who boasted of having perfected a \u201cscientific technique\u201d to romance and seduction. Belle Gunness was a nesting \u201cBlack Widow\u201d whose sprawling farm in Northwest Indiana was a fatal lure for lonely bachelors seeking the comforts of middle-age security by answering matrimonial advertisements placed by Gunness.Notorious in his own day, Hoch had faded into the dark background of Chicago crime history. But, in Heartland Serial Killers, Lindberg brings back vividly the horrors of one of ChicagoÆs first celebrity criminals and uncovers new evidence of a close connection between Hoch and H.H. Holmes, the \u201cDevil in the White City.\u201dUnlike Hoch, Belle Gunness, likely the most prolific and infamous female serial killer of the 20th century, has remained fascinating to the public. Here, Lindberg presents the most comprehensive and compelling study of the Gunness case to date, including new information regarding ongoing DNA testing of remains found at the site of GunnessÆs farm in LaPorte, Indiana, which may serve to resolve once and for all the mystery surrounding GunnessÆs death.Told in alternating chapters and rapidly paced, this book is true crime at its best—gripping, pulpy, and full of sharp historical tidbits. True crime fans, history buffs, and those interested in local lore will delight in this chilling tale of two ruthless killers.

Heartland Serial Killers: Belle Gunness, Johann Hoch, and Murder for Profit in Gaslight Era Chicago

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Northern Illinois University Press

Pages are clean and binding is tight.

Chicago Ragtime: Another Look at Chicago, 1880-1920

Icarus Press

Dust jacket notes:  "A maverick founder, hitless wonders, baseball's greatest scandal, Bill Veeck and his exploding scoreboard, a go-go pennant, failure, rebuilding, and the never-ending search for the answer to the question 'Who's on 3rd?'  It's all here in this lively and informative history of the Chicago White Sox.  Rich Lindberg traces the stormy, sometimes madcap, history of the White Sox with a wit and perseverance that makes this book must reading for any baseball fan.  Here are all the glory days when the Sox assembled one of the greatest teams in baseball only to suffer the disgrace of the Black Sox sellout.  The long years until the pennant of 1959 were redeemed by characters like Smead Jolly, Zeke Bonura, Art 'The Great' Shire, Billy Pierce, Minnie Minoso, Jim Rivera, the feuding Comiskeys, and any number of second-rate third basemen.  Filled with the great days, the great people and plays from the 1900s to the 1980s, Who's on 3rd? is the most comprehensive coverage of the Sox ever published.  With lots of photos, statistics galore, player index, and a special chapter on great games to remember (and forget), this is a treasury of all the moments and miracles on 35th & Shields."

Who's on Third? The Chicago White Sox Story

Sports & Outdoors

This book revises the picture of the glittering Chicago of impressive mansions and museums; it exposes the city's corrupt underbelly and the realities of life in an age which is often assumed to have been simpler and more moral than ours. Includes chapters on the Haymarket riot, the gamblers' wars, the notorious levee red-light district and institutionalized graft.

Chicago by Gaslight: A History of Chicago's Netherworld: 1880-1920

Academy Chicago Publishers

Forest Park, Illinois is home to four major cemeteries and has been the final resting place for both the famous and not-so-famous since the early 1870s. The village was once recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records for its ratio of over thirty dead to every live resident.Notable permanent residents of Forest Park’s hallowed grounds include the parents of Ernest Hemingway; serial killer Belle Gunness; Emma Goldman and other important members of the anarchist movement; evangelist Billy Sunday; Elizabeth Taylor’s husband Mike Todd; as well as victims of the Eastland disaster, the Iroquois Theater fire, and the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus train wreck. Inspired by Edgar Lee Masters’s classic 1915 work, Spoon River Anthology, the Historical Society of Forest Park invited local authors, playwrights, journalists, and historians to pen individual narratives of those buried within Forest Park, in the style of the original work. Jay Bonansinga, a New York Times bestselling author (The Walking Dead); noted local historians Robert Loerzel and Richard Lindberg; Chicago-area novelists Michael A. Black, Frances McNamara, and Stephanie Kuehnert; and playwright Amy Binns-Calvey are just a few of those whose work is included in this volume.

Des Plaines River Anthology

Literature & Fiction

Elder, Robert K.

McNamara, Frances

Bonansinga, Jay

Loerzel, Robert

BERNSTEIN, ARNIE

Kuehnert, Stephanie

Black, Michael A.

Pirrone, D. M.

Atwood, Kathryn

Poetry

Allium Press of Chicago

Presents a history of the Chicago White Sox baseball team, with profiles of players, game highlights, history of ballparks, statistics, anecdotes, and memorabilia.

White Sox Encyclopedia

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Temple University Press

Return to the Scene of the Crime: A Guide to Infamous Places in Chicago

Return to the Scene of the Crime: a Guide to Infamous Places in Chicago"", by Richard Lindberg, is an uncensored neighborhood-by-neighborhood map to the back alleys and boulevards of Chicago where some of the most infamous events of the city's criminal past occurred. Capone, Dillinger, and other organized crime figures have left an indelible imprint on the Windy City.""

Cumberland House Publishing

Return again to the scene of the crime and visit the secret hideouts of Nazi saboteurs, anarchist plotters, charlatans, fakers, gangsters, and even a love-sick matron dubbed the "Torso Killer." See up close the murdering matrimonial bluebeard Johann Hoch and probe the unsolved mysteries surrounding the disappearance of candy heiress Helen Brach, the sinking of the "Christmas Tree Ship," and dozens of famous gangland "rubouts." This sequel to the best-selling Return to the Scene of the Crime is a provocative travel guide and road map pointing toward more dark and unexplored corners of the Windy City and its surrounding suburbs. The bizarre, the unexpected, and the offbeat are viewed through a kaleidoscope of colorful Chicago neighborhoods populated by outrageous characters. Crime scenes are presented in "then-and-now" perspective with running commentary on the history of the city. Included in the neighborhood tours is a unique collection of side trips--shorter, lighter historical vignettes that spirit out-of-towners to places of interest in Chicago that are not necessarily infamous. Once you have read this guidebook, you will want to return to the scene of the crime, again and again.

Return Again to the Scene of the Crime: A Guide to Even More Infamous Places in Chicago

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