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WEIRD CHICAGO:
Ghosts, Gangsters & Ghouls of the Windy City!
By Troy Taylor, Adam
Selzer & Ken Melvoin-Berg
New, Revised & Updated 2009 Edition!
The city of Chicago is unquestionably the weirdest and most haunted
city in America! With a bloody history that is filled with violent
events, mysterious happenings and more than its share of crime,
there is no place like it in the country.
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Now, in the most complete book
ever written about Chicago’s
ghosts and strange history, the
creators of the Weird Chicago
Tours reveal just how the Windy
City’s weirdness has shaped the
city that rests on the shores of
Lake Michigan today With
notebooks and cameras in hand,
the Weird Chicago crew has
roamed the city in search of the
haunted, the strange, the
offbeat and the downright odd.
They have tracked down bizarre
history, weird people and
places, forgotten remnants of
the past, unexplained happenings
and more ghost stories than have
appeared in any other book
before – plus the real story
behind some Chicago hauntings
that you only thought you knew.
From Hull House to Resurrection
Mary, from John Dillinger to Al
Capone, this book showcases the
most unusual aspects of Chicago
– and just what makes it so
haunted, weird and unique.
Packed full of stories that you
won’t find anywhere else, this
is a journey that you’re never
going to forget! $20.00
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Some of the Stories &
Locations in the Book
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Born
in Blood: Weird Chicago History
* A Fort in the Wilderness
* Fort Dearborn Massacre
* "Mudhole of the Prairie"
* Civil War Chicago & Eighty Acres of Hell
* Great Chicago Fire
* Chicago Business: The Rich Get Richer
* Merchant Princes, Castle Builders & Rapists
* Riots, Strikes & A Headless Horseman
* "Hog Butcher to the World"
* World Columbian Exposition of 1893
* "Black Sox" Scandal of 1919
* The Cubs & the Billy Goat Curse
Weird Chicago People
* Chicago Politicians
* Abraham Lincoln & Chicago's "Smoke Filled Room"
* Hinky Dink Kenna & Bath House John
* Everleigh Sisters: Chicago's Most Famous Madams
* Last Survivor of the Boston Tea Party?
* Mike McDonald: "There's a Sucker Born Every Minute"
* Wizard of Chicago
* Chicago's Mickey Finn
* Cap Streeter: Chicago's Last Pioneer
* Peter Nissen's Fantastic Voyage
Weird
Chicago Disasters
* Chicago Fires
* The LaSalle Hotel Fire
* Haber Factory Fire
* Our Lady of Angels Fire
* The Iroquois Theater Disaster
* St. Patrick's Day Dancehall Disaster
* The Trolley of Death
* Wreck of the Rouse Simmons
* The Eastland Disaster
* The Flight 191 Disaster
Weird (& Haunted) Chicago Eateries &
Watering Holes
* Whitechapel Club
* A Weird Chicago Hot Dog Tour
* Chicago's British Pub
* The Ole St. Andrew's Inn
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* Bucktown Pub
* Lottie's Pub
* Ghosts of the Liar's Club
* Secrets of Excalibur* Tales of the Tonic Room
* Hauntings of Fado
* The Green Mill
* Sidebars on Dozens of other Haunted Spots
Weird Chicago Crime & Murder
* Guns, Roses & Valentines
* Al Capone
* O'Banion's North Side Gang
* The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
* The Chicago Outfit After Capone
* Capone's Enforcer: Frank Nitti
* Dillinger: Dead or Alive?
* Dr. Thomas Neill Cream
* The City Courthouse & Gallows
* Devil Came to Chicago: H.H. Holmes & the Murder Castle
* Chicago's Bluebeard
* The Sausage Vat Murder
* Case of the "Ragged Stranger"
* Chicago's Thrill Killers: Leopold & Loeb
* Farewell to the Grimes Sisters
* Richard Speck: Born to Raise Hell
* John Wayne Gacy: The Clown that Killed
Weird Chicago Unexplained
* The Riddle of the Fool Killer Submarine
* The Hand of Death
* The Virgin Mary Comes to Chicago
* Queen of Heaven Visitations & Our Lady of the Underpass
* Apparitions at St. Rita's
* Devil Danced in Bridgeport
* Maple Lake Spook Lights
* Mystery Airships Over Chicago
* Chicago vs. the Flying Saucers
* O'Hare Airport UFO
* Chicago's Mysterious Kangaroos
* Lake Michigan's Sea Monster
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Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Blood,
Guns & Valentines
The Haunting of Al Capone &
Chicago's Gangland Ghosts
by Troy Taylor (2010)
From the slums of Brooklyn to the luxurious hotels and
nightclubs of Chicago, legendary mobster Al Capone took
a meteoric rise to the highest levels of the criminal
underworld at only twenty-five years of age. He became
one of the wealthiest men in the world, with scores of
speakeasies, brothels and gambling houses under his
control and hundreds of gunmen ready to do his bidding.
But in spite of his vast power, Capone was a man who
lived in fear – haunted by a vengeful spirit from St.
Valentine’s Day 1929!
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There is no other
book like Fatal Drop in
the annals of Chicago crime
literature and it's one that
only the creators of the Weird
Chicago Tours can bring you!
Filled with remarkable
anecdotes, strange history,
terrible criminals, dark deeds
and plenty of contemporary
photographs, this is the most
chilling and gut-wrenching
collection of Windy City crime
stories ever put to paper.
You'll be turning the pages of
this one long into the night!
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Journey back to Roaring 20s Chicago with author Troy
Taylor and discover the world of Al Capone and the gangs
that made the city streets run red with blood! In this
first, full-length book to unravel the haunting of Al
Capone and other gangland ghosts of Chicago, you’ll find
a time of jazz, bootleg liquor and rattling tommy guns
as Taylor brings to life the mob violence and brutal
revenge from the Prohibition era. Enter the world of Big
Jim Colosimo, John Torrio, the “Terrible” Gennas, Dion
O’Banion and of course, Al Capone and come along for the
rise and fall of Capone and the various gangs of
Chicago, the Beer Wars, the police and political
corruption, the deadly shootings, the “one-way rides”,
the mob assassinations and the other terrifying events
that left lingering spirits in their wake!
$18.00
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Weird
Chicago Places & Roadside Oddities
* House of Crosses
* Bughouse Square
* Dil Pickle Club
* Wind Blew Inn
* Egyptian Buildings, Muffler Men & Cigar Store Indians
* Tribute to the "Spindle"
* Leaning Tower of Niles
Forgotten & Lost Chicago
* Chicago's Vice Districts
* The Chicago Coliseum
* Al Capone's Four Deuces
* Lexington Hotel
* Last Days of Maxwell Street
* Prairie Avenue
* Olson Rug Co. Waterfall
* Essanay Studios
* Chicago's Lost Theaters
* Old Chicago Amusement Park
* Chicago's Other Lost Amusement Parks
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Weird Chicago Graveyards
* The Vanishing City Cemetery
* Mystery of the Couch Tomb
* Tales of Graceland Cemetery
* Phantoms of Rosehill
* The Italian Bride
* Miracle Child of Chicago
* Mysteries of Robinson Woods
* Showman's Rest
* Chicago's Most Haunted: Bachelor's Grove Cemetery
* Other Haunted Graveyards
Weird Chicago Ghosts & Hauntings
* Jane Addams' Hull House
* Chicago's Forgotten Haunted Houses
* Haunted Chicago Police Stations
* Irish Castle
* Father Damen & the Haunting of Holy Family
* House with No Square Corners
* Mysteries of the Schweppe Mansion
* Old Town Tatu
* Ghosts of the Congress Hotel
* Chicago's Vanishing Hitchhikers
* Resurrection Mary
* Dozens of Sidebars & Ghost Alerts of other Haunted Places in
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