By Gary Krist
Chicago 1919, a year of disaster for those who lived it. From the firey crash of the Wingfoot Express to the murder of little Janet Wilkinson, to the transit strike, to ('dose bums) the Black Socks, the inhabitants of this western metropolis saw a little of every kind of trouble.
Their politicians (much like ours today) were ineffectual, partisan and got very little of the peoples' business accomplished. When asked of he wanted to clean up Chicago politics, Judge "Kennesaw Mountain" Landis, soon to be baseballs' first commissioner said,"i'd rather clean the shithouse."
This book gives all the sordid details of life in Chicago in that disasterous year of 1919
I give ot a 6/10 not bad.
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