Tales of an All-Night Town

by Elin Schoen

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151849935
• ISBN13: 9780151849932
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

So, you think Chicago politics are dirty?

Everyone has heard about the Chicago Machine (Richard Daley), New York's Boss Tweed, and Boston's Last Hurrah. America's best kept secret, however, is that the real dirty politics happens in small town America.Tales of an All Night Town exposes this dirty little secret. When a criminal organization (a/k/a gang) moves into a desperately poor town of a few thousand, have money, and do not shy away from violence, chaos, corruption, and violence rule. Everything from the Police Department to the Mayor's office is corrupted.A few thousand dollars and a shot gun in Chicago won't even get you on the evening news. In a small town in southern Illinois, they will get you a whole town. (Not to mention a fascinating book!)