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Return to the Scene of the Crime: A Guide to Infamous Places in Chicago
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Return to the Scene of the Crime: A Guide to Infamous Places in Chicagoby Richard Lindberg
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: Cruising Chronicles of Chicagoland Criminolgy, November 25, 2003 Reviewer:TundraVision (from the Land of Sky Blue Waters) - Hail! Hail! The gangsters are all here, along with other unsavory characters and scenes from the seamy sides of Chicago. Home Boy Richard Lindberg has done a fine job of plotting tours with concise briefings, maps, and photos from Chicago's worst. Sure, there are some errors - but, as other reviews here attest, the True Crime buff knows what they are, for example: the perpetrators of the Brown's Chicken Massacre have been apprehended since the book's publication and this reviewer disagrees with Lindberg's speculation that, were it not for Nicole Brown Simpson's violent death, O.J "would have drifted into permanent obscurity remembered by a handful of autograph chasers at sports memorabilia shows and admirers from his football days." What is OJ doing in this book, you ask? Remember, he was flying out of LA that night? The Chauffeur came to get him at the house in Brentwood to take him to the airport to Chicago. The Hotel where he may or may not have cut his hand on a broken glass is on the Tour, just about a mile north of John Wayne Gacy's former residence. In the Grand Scheme, the errors or disagreements are a minor nuisance and the tour just moves on. The book is arranged in geographical groupings, so that a reader could take the walking tour of the Loop and Near Neighborhoods and then continue on by car. The Tours are: 1. On the Waterfront: Downtown Chicago 2. The Gold Coast and the Slum: the Near North Side from the Chicago River to Division Street 3. North Side Pursuits: Lincoln Park to Rogers Park 4. The Land Approaching O'Hare: Chicago's Northwest Side 5. North by Northwest: Kenilworth to Barrington 6. West Side Stories 7. Residences of Organized Crime: the Western Suburbs 8. South Side Sinners Tour takers will take in the sites of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929, John Dillinger's "bad date" at the Biograph, the office of Eliot Ness and "the Untouchables," Richard Speck's slaying of the Nurses, the "Police Riot" at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and many other "low Lights" in Chicagoland history. All this and Mrs. O'Leary's cow, too! Reviewed by TundraVision, former friend of Garfield Goose, Amazon Reviewer
Near North News, July 24, 1999
Richard C. Lindberg has become one of the most prolific authors on the vast subject of Chicago. His works include books about the White Sox, police corruption, ethnic Chicago, and local quotes. Now Lindberg has produced Return to the Scene of the Crime, subtitled A guide to infamous places in Chicago. To produce this massive tome Lindberg credits the help of such authorities as Pat Butler, John OBrien, Gera-Lind Kolarik and Paul Newey. . . . Lindberg is a facile writer and he knows his stuff. You dont have to actually walk the tours but you should buy his book.
Chicago Sun-Times, August 24, 1999
The Chicago area is peppered with haunted locales. From Norwood Park Township, where John Wayne Gacy buried most of his victims in a crawl space, to the grassy patch on North Clark where the St. Valentines Day Massacre occurred, to the site on West Randolph where the Iroquois Theater fire claimed 571 lives, there are hundreds of spots where tragedy once reignedand where ghost stories are born. Verteran author and Chicago Crime Commission member Richard Lindberg has a fascinating book called Return to the Scene of the Crime: A Guide to Infamous Places in Chicago. This is the definitive road map of Chicagos dark history.
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