A dark street curves around Lake Michigan to a cemetery. A cold wind blows. Mist rises from the lake. Suddenly, you feel you are not alone. Is somebody—or something—hiding in the mist? Get ready to read four chilling tales about Chicago’s spookiest spots. This 24-page book features controlled, narrative nonfiction text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The colorful design and spooky art will engage and terrify emergent readers.
This new collection (whose title is an homage to the TV horror host Svengoolie) is a collection of creepy tales in the Chicago suburbs.
While prohibition may not have been a problem for James, the Capone-Moran beer war was. One week he was selling Big Al's beer and the next it was Moran's. Making life even harder on him was that Moran owned a bar just down the street.
Offers a collection of legends, tales, and stories of hauntings in Chicago, Illinois.
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One guy started throwing lumber from a truck into the water to act as buoys (though, according to some reports, he did more harm than goodiin addition to treading water in heavy clothes and kicking people off their ankles, ...
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."--
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 ...
This is the most complete book ever written about Chicago's ghosts and strange history.
Fans of cursed movie lore already know that the movie Poltergeist was seriously hexed. After the release of each movie one of the stars died. So what better place to film a hexed movie series then in a cursed building.
Chicago, Illinois, is well known for its long history of mobsters, murders, and tragedies, but it is also known as one of the most haunted cities in the United States.