NON-FICTION BOOK GROUP discusses "Sin in the Second City"

Start: Mon, 01/25/2010 - 7:00pm

End: Mon, 01/25/2010 - 8:00pm

Sin in the Second City by Karen Abbott

As Abbott's first book, she probes the titillating milieu of the posh, world- famous Everleigh Club brothel that operated from 1900 to 1911 on Chicago's Near South Side. The madams, Ada and Minna Everleigh, were sisters whose shifting identities had them as traveling actors, Edgar Allan Poe's relatives, Kentucky debutantes fleeing violent husbands and daughters of a once-wealthy Virginia lawyer crushed by the Civil War. The Everleighs spoiled their whores with couture gowns, gourmet meals and extraordinary salaries. With colorful characters, this is an entertaining, well-researched slive of Windy City history.

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