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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.
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      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      * Uncover never-repealed laws that forbid "unsightly or disgusting" people from showing their faces in public, the carrying of hatpins, or offering a whiskey or a cigar to your dog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


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      • 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

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