Lords of the Levee: The Story of Bathhouse John and Hinky Dink

by Lloyd Wendt and Herman Kogan

Book Overview

Winner of 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award-Certificate of Excellence

In the early twentieth century, John Coughlin and Mike Kenna ruled Chicago's First Ward, the lucrative lakefront territory and nerve center of the city. It was one of the most infamous havens for vice in the entire country, home to gambling palaces with marble floors and mahogany bars, to a mini-city of thugs and prostitutes and down-and-outers, to dives and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810123207
• ISBN13: 9780810123205
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.7"