Free City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago by Gary Krist

University of Maryland libraries.
    And to the people at the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office who tried hard to find the inquest documents I was looking for, I’d like to say “Thanks for trying.”
    Among the historians who offered me guidance and suggestions along the way, special mention must go to Douglas Bukowski, William Hale Thompson’s most insightful biographer. Doug and I don’t agree on everything Big Bill, but he has been incredibly generous with his time and his research, once even lending me his copies of some old FBI files that the Bureau itself no longer has. I now consider Doug a friend, and I apologize to him for those suggestions of his that I ended up not taking. I’d also like to express my gratitude to historians Sarah Marcus (now of History Works), Dominick Pacyga of Columbia College in Chicago, and Margaret Garb of Washington University in St. Louis for various comments and advice, and to Carl Smith of Northwestern University, who helped steer me to importantsources very early in my research. And, as always, this book is better for having passed before the editorial eye of my pal Lisa Zeidner.
    I owe enormous thanks yet again to my astute, erudite, and debonair agent and friend, Eric Simonoff at William Morris Endeavor, and to his assistants Eadie Klemm and Britton Schey. At Crown, I’d like to thank Rachel Klayman, Molly Stern, and especially my editor Sean Desmond and his assistant, Stephanie Chan, for their enthusiasm, insight, and gameness above and beyond the call of duty. And finally, I’d like to express gratitude to my family—Elizabeth Cheng, Anna Chang-Yi Krist, and Lily—for being just about the most wonderful spouse, child, and hound (respectively) I can imagine.

NOTES

All dates are 1919 unless otherwise indicated.
BA = Broad Ax
CA = Chicago American
CD = Chicago Defender
CDJ = Chicago Daily Journal
CDN = Chicago Daily News
CDT = Chicago Daily Tribune
CEP = Chicago Evening Post
CHE = Chicago Herald and Examiner
CSM = Christian Science Monitor
NYT = New York Times
    The opening quotations are from Darrow, Story of My Life , p. 219, and Haywood, Black Bolshevik , p. 1. “Bathhouse John” Coughlin was quoted in Cutler, Chicago , p. 62.

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