Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago
(Part of the Historical Studies of Urban America Series)
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It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln's. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and most curious crimes in civilized history. The dead man, Dr. P. H. Cronin, was a respected Irish physician, but his brutal murder uncovered a web of intrigue, secrecy, and corruption that stretched across...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:022624895X
ISBN13:9780226248950
Release Date:March 2015
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.27 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 8.3"
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