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Secret Life, Secret Death - Going Down in Flames in Bootlegging & Prostitution in Capone's Chicago & Wisconsin (Paperback)
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Secret Life, Secret Death - Going Down in Flames in Bootlegging & Prostitution in Capone's Chicago & Wisconsin (Paperback)
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The true story of a young mother, who fell into bootlegging and
worse in Gangland Chicago in the Roaring 20s. To escape, she sent
her boy away and fled to northern Wisconsin, where she ran a shady
hotel, until her death under suspicious circumstances. Now her
granddaughter takes you along for the ride as she hunts down the
family secret. A "haunting story." Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune]
This true story evokes the toll exacted on an ordinary woman and
her young son, "caught in the web of Chicago's crime-ridden sin
streets and the no-so-pastoral North Woods of Wisconsin." Richard
Lindberg] With 175 historic photos, the tale tells a woman's story
within the historic context of the corruption in Chicago,
bootlegging during Prohibition and crime up in No-Man's Land
northern Wisconsin. When Genevieve Davis's father was 5 years old,
his mother took him to the funeral of vice lord Big Jim Colosimo.
The book is based on Davis's 10 year, painstaking research project
to find out how her Grandmother mother and Dad got mixed up in
Colosimo's world. Along the way you'll run into Al Capone, Big Jim
Colosimo and John Dillinger. "A haunting story. . . Davis's
grandmother had a colorful, turbulent, mobster-crossed and
altogether extraordinary life." Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune]
Genevieve Davis shares some of her own adventures and misadventures
as a researcher, historical re-enactor and professional artist, as
she ferrets out the complex, intertwined stories of her
Grandmother, crooks like Big Jim Colosimo, Al Capone and Johnny
Torrio, local officials and her Grandmother's men friends and their
families. The research project was also the source for the
documentary film, SECRET LIFE, SECRET DEATH, produced and directed
by Genevieve Davis, available at www.secretlifesecretdeath.com The
film was described as "visually stunning" in the Chicago Tribune
and "innovative and dazzling" by the Gene Siskel Film Center.
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