Originally published: Lookout Mountain, TN: Jefferson Press, 2008.
Take a historical tour of the famous and not-so-famous haunts around town. Sometimes the real story is far different from the urban legend ... and most of the time it's even gorier .
From posh mansions built on massacre grounds to the drowned quarries of a forest preserve, Ursula Bielski follows the dark undercurrents beneath the electric lights of the World's Fair."--
"Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools." That's how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside.
Offers a collection of legends, tales, and stories of hauntings in Chicago, Illinois.
In this stunning book, the reader will discover not only the eerie tales and stories of the city but will be amazed by the little-known incidents and true-life paranormal investigations of Chicago.
Chapter 8: The Mummy Walks 71 Field Museum of Natural History 71 Chapter 9: Trading Secrets 76 One Financial Place ... 85 Chapter 11: Valentine Daze 86 St. Valentine's Day Massacre site 88 Frank Nitti's suicide spot 96 Biograph Theater ...
99 Ghostly Places You Can Visit In and Around the Windy City Jeff Morris, Vince Sheilds ... book per year since then with Cincinnati Haunted Handbook in 2010, Nashville Haunted Handbook in 2011, and Twin Cities Haunted Handbook in 2012.
From Chicago historian Adam Selzer, expert on all of the Windy City’s quirks and oddities, comes a compelling anthology of forty unsolved mysteries from the 1800s to the modern day.
Chicago Haunts: Ghostly Lore of the Windy City
Chicago has quite a harrowing history, and not all of it has stayed in the past.