Lords of the Levee is a 1943 non-fiction book by longtime Chicago Tribune reporters Lloyd Wendt and Herman Kogan in one of three collaborations about the...
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Everleigh Club (category Brothels in the United States)
biography of the aristocratic Everleigh Sisters of Chicago. Knickerbocker Publishing Wendt, Lloyd; Kogan, Herman (1943). Lords of the Levee: The Story of Bathhouse...
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Michael Kenna (politician) (category American people of Irish descent)
several figures of organized crime in the city; he and Coughlin were known as the "Lords of the Levee" after the Levee vice district in the 1st Ward which...
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John Coughlin (alderman) (category American gangsters of Irish descent)
particular were notorious across the nation and globe. He and Kenna were known as the "Lords of the Levee" after the Levee vice district that provided them...
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Political boss (section In the United States)
Kogan, Lords of the Levee: The story of Bathhouse John and Hinky Dink (1944). Douglas Bukowski, Big Bill Thompson, Chicago, and the politics of image (1998)...
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The Levee District was the red-light district of Chicago from the 1880s until 1912, when police raids shut it down. The district, like many frontier town...
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operated the Everleigh Club, a high-priced brothel in the Levee District of Chicago during the first decade of the twentieth century. Ada, the eldest,...
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underworld. August 20, 1858 – Michael "Hinky Dink" Kenna, one of the two "Lords of the Levee", was born. 1860 – Chicago's mayor, John "Long John" Wentworth...
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Chicago Coliseum (category 1982 disestablishments in the United States)
Coughlin and Kenna had been known as the "Lords of the Levee". Mayor Fred Busse was finally successful in halting the Ball in 1909. From 1904 through 1920...
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Herman Kogan (category University of Chicago alumni)
Bill of Chicago (Co-authored with Lloyd Wendt, Bobbs-Merrill, 1953); Lords of the Levee (Co-authored with Lloyd Wendt; Bobbs-Merrill, 1943) and Chicago: A...
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Gray Wolves (Chicago) (redirect from The "Gray Wolves" of Chicago)
aldermen as gray wolves "for the color of their hair and the rapacious cunning and greed of their natures." Lords of the Levee Black Horse Cavalry Maureen...
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First Ward Ball (category History of Chicago)
Dink" Kenna. Coughlin and Kenna were known as the "Lords of the Levee", a red-light district of Chicago. The Ball was finally closed down in 1909 by Mayor...
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pieces with Herman Kogan; Lords of the Levee. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943 Give the Lady What She Wants: the story of Marshall Field & Company. Chicago:...
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M., Jr. Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919. (1970). 305 pp. Wendt, Lloyd, and Herman Kogan. Lords of the Levee. (1967), popular stories from...
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Tom O'Brien (swindler) (category People extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States)
History of Gambling in America from the Colonies to Canfield. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938. Wendt, Lloyd and Herman Kogan. Lords of the Levee: The Story...
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Speaker of the House of Commons, as is that of the Lord Speaker of the House of Lords. At courts and levées, bishops were directed to wear rochet and chimere;...
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Pattern 1831 sabre for General Officers (category 19th-century military history of the United Kingdom)
prominent in images of officers of the British Hussar regiments painted by Robert Dighton jr. in 1807. As officially regulated dress or levée swords they first...
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Tenochtitlan (category Pages using infobox country or infobox former country with the symbol caption or type parameters)
the "levee of Nezahualcoyotl" was constructed, reputedly designed by Nezahualcoyotl. Estimated to be 12 to 16 km (7.5 to 9.9 mi) in length, the levee was...
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Irish Social Season (category Social history of Ireland)
series of levées, drawing rooms, banquets and balls in the Castle. The period of the social season also coincided with the parliamentary sessions of the Irish...
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alphabetical list of documentary films with Wikipedia articles. The earliest documentary listed is Fred Ott's Sneeze (1894), which is also the first motion...
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Thirteen Years' War (1454–1466) (redirect from Prussian War of the Cities)
rescue it from the Polish siege. It forced Casimir to call a levée en masse of Greater Poland, without the traditional approval of the provincial sejmik...
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Zac Goldsmith (redirect from The Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park)
majority of 7,766 votes. After the election, Boris Johnson awarded Goldsmith with a life peerage, making him a member of the House of Lords and allowing...
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leader of the House of Lords) but was nonetheless very influential during his one and a half years of service. A descendant of the 1st Earl of Strafford...
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periods of calm, however, people can erect dams and levees in order to minimize its impact. Fortune, Machiavelli argues, seems to strike at the places...
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Venus in Furs (song) (category The Velvet Underground songs)
of air-conditioned Middle Eastern menace with a plodding beat that's the missing link between "Bolero" and Led Zeppelin's version of "When the Levee Breaks"...
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A fortified hill or rock. Dubash: See Banyan. Durbar: The court, the hall of audience; a levee. Faqueer, Fakir: A poor man, mendicant, a religious beggar...
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The Queen Mother assured him that no one doubted his innocence. However, on 18 April his chambers were raided while he was attending the kings levée....
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shortages, but found themselves the target of popular anger. Many left for the provinces. The first conscription measure or levée en masse on 24 February sparked...
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Louis XIV (redirect from The Grand Monarque)
to Louis XIV Fundamental laws of the Kingdom of France House of France Levée (ceremony) List of French monarchs Outline of France Louis XIV style Nicolas...
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Rochet (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
also on ceremonial occasions outside, e.g. sitting in the House of Lords, attending a royal levee, or commencement ceremony. It may be worn with a stole...
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