Finding Meaning in the Shadows

Mysteries and Miseries of Chicago by Day and by Night. [Chicago?: Garden City Book Co., not before 1893].

Although urban exposés most often took New York City as their subject, other cities became the focus of similar treatment as America’s population expanded across the country and as urban areas became concentrated enough to support their own underworlds. Chicago is the focus of this pulpy work featuring fictionalized gamblers and prostitutes.