Wicked Decatur

By Troy Taylor

Book Overview

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 wide-open. Wicked Decatur presents a rogue's gallery of those who have slipped through the cracks of legality over the past century and a half.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609491602
• ISBN13: 9781609491604
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"