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True Crime

Taylor, Troy
True Crime
From the early days of piracy to twentieth-century mob massacres, the state has been plagued with some of the worst crimes in history. This book begins with a general overview of crime in the state and then focuses on its headline stories.

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Wicked Northern Illinois: The Dark Side of the Prairie State

Taylor, Troy
Wicked Northern Illinois: The Dark Side of the Prairie State
From the secrets of Joliet Penitentiary to the ferocious gunfights between the Ku Klux Klan and the Shelton Gang, Troy Taylor takes the measure of the dishonest sweat and innocent blood poured into the prairies of Northern Illinois. Meet the "fallen angels" of Decatur's red-light district, the Springfield counterfeiters who bungled stealing Lincoln's bones and the Aurora man who propped up his porch with the heads of his wife and brother-in-la...

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Wicked Decatur

Taylor, Troy
Wicked Decatur
In 1854, Decatur was nicknamed "Hell's Half-Acre." By the 1910s and 1920s, the town was referred to as the "Second Most Corrupt City in Illinois, " gaining notoriety as a place where murder, bootlegging, prostitution, kidnapping, gambling and political corruption were common. Members of the Decatur police force, like Troy Taylor's great-grandfather, were hard pressed to bar the door against crime in a town that seemed determined to remain "wid...

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Monsters of Illinois

Taylor, Troy
Monsters of Illinois
Bigfoot Big Muddy Monster The Piasa Bird The Mad Gasser of Mattoon Other strange creatures, including vampires, alligators in the sewer, out-of-place panthers, thunderbirds, and lake monsters

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