![]() ![]() But they were also constantly embroiled in turf wars with other brothel owners negotiations with corrupt police the growing hysteria over 'white slavery ' and the grandstanding of puritanical zealots who worked to shut them down.Ībbott carefully reconstructs an inside view of the lives and careers of these famed sisters. ![]() The sisters maintained a spectacular home and business place, offering pleasures to those who could afford the services of the women who worked for them. Karen Abbott's Sin in the Second City is an assiduously researched and lively look at the Everleigh sisters, Minna and Ada, women who seemed to come from nowhere to found the famed brothel, the Everleigh Club. This article shared 4886 times since Wed Apr 2, 2008Ĭhicago, as Mark Twain put it, 'outgrows her prophecies faster than she can make them … she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.' The city yields multiply layered histories to those who take the time to search. ![]()
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