Sheffield is one of Chicago’s oldest neighborhoods. Its boundaries are Halsted, Armitage, Fullerton, and the North Branch of the Chicago River. Most of the buildings are multi-storied. The few standing in the area in 1871 were untouched by The Fire. Although many were added after, an 1886 map of the neighborhood still shows a large number of empty more...
Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history - and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago's notorious Levee district at the dawn of the century, the Club's proprietors, two aristocratic (or so they said) sisters named Minna and Ada Everleigh, welcomed moguls a more...
This exceptional chronicle takes readers on a visual tour of the glittering "white city" that emerged along the swampy south shore of Lake Michigan as a symbol of Chicago's rebirth and pride twenty-two years after the Great Fire.