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Chicago and its cess-pools of infamy

Chapter 1: CHICAGO AND ITS CESS-POOLS OF INFAMY
By Samuel Paynter Wilson
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The author provides a detailed, candid survey of urban life, tracing Chicago's rapid growth and contrasting its public splendors with hidden vice. Chapters document prostitution and the white slave traffic, gambling dens, concert saloons, pawnbrokers, police activities, courts, and institutions such as missions and churches. Investigative accounts and case studies aim to expose criminal operations, analyze why individuals fall into vice, and urge moral reform and parental and civic vigilance. The narrative pairs denunciations of corruption with descriptions of charitable efforts and practical recommendations for prevention and remedy.

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Title: Chicago and its cess-pools of infamy

Author: Samuel Paynter Wilson

Release date: April 14, 2020 [eBook #61836]
Most recently updated: October 17, 2024

Language: English

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CHICAGO AND ITS CESS-POOLS OF INFAMY

BY

SAMUEL PAYNTER WILSON

Author of “Chicago by Gas Light”, “Wilson’s Epitome
of Historical and Chronological Facts” and
“Wilson’s Concise History.”

DEDICATED
TO THE GOOD
MEN AND WOMEN OF THE WORLD
WITH THE HOPE THAT THE
VICIOUS MAY BECOME BETTER
MEN AND WOMEN

CHICAGO
SAMUEL PAYNTER WILSON
SIXTEENTH EDITION

MR. SAMUEL PAYNTER WILSON.
Chicago, Ill.

My Dear Friend:—

I have read your book with great interest. It tells the truth, though no book can tell all the truth. You have been a great help to our community by the practical and useful service you have rendered in the investigation of vice and the bringing of those responsible for it to justice. Our city is the better for your work.

I hope your book will do much good. If parents but knew the dangers that confront their boys and girls in our great cities, they would at least take some ordinary precautions before turning children adrift amid these perils.

Very sincerely yours,
MORTON CULVER HARTZELL,

President of the Douglas Neighborhood Club.