About the Book

Strange But True: Chicago brings together the city's most bizarre news items, almost-believable urban myths, incredibly antiquated laws, curious little-known facts, and neighborhood eccentric oddballs and weirdos into one compulsively readable guide. Whether you're a native Chicagoan or just passing through, Strange But True: Chicago is your guide to the Windy City's wackiest, most offbeat, mostly totally true tales, trivia, and events.
* Learn the grisly method used by gangsters to dispose of their victims . . . Sausage anyone?
* Meet the eel who is at the cutting edge of biotechnological development and the world's grossest nature museum exhibits
* Cheer Bertha Palmer' revenge over the Infanta of Spain five years after the rude royal refused to socialize with an "inkeeper's wife"
* Discover the crooked mayor who received campaign funds from Al Capone, threatened to punch King George V, staged a rodeo in the Chicago City Council, and served the world's largest martini
* Uncover never-repealed laws that forbid "unsightly or disgusting" people from showing their faces in public, the carrying of hatpins, or offering a whiskey or a cigar to your dog
* And much more!
Only in Chicago . . .
is it illegal to take a French poodle to the opera
is there a tradition of drag queen galas stretching back to 1907
can British visitors be arrested for not speaking the American language correctly

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 256 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Insiders' Guide (CT)

ISBN-10: 0762736801

ISBN-13: 9780762736805

Dimensions: 6.92 x 6.54 x 0.78 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.05 lbs

• Categories: Midwest State History