Hidden History of Uptown & Edgewater

by Patrick Butler

Book Overview

If there's any place in Chicago that's been all things to all men, it has to be the corner of the city that is occupied by Edgewater and Uptown. Babe Ruth and Mahatma Gandhi found a place of refuge at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, but the locale has also been a sanctuary for Appalachian coal miners and Japanese Americans released from internment camps. Al Capone reportedly moved booze through a secret tunnel connecting the Green Mill and the Aragon Ballroom,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1540222039
• ISBN13: 9781540222039
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: History Press Library Editions
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"