The Levee, Chicago - Knowledge (XXG)

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which case the charges were dropped and the bond seized." It was shown that even when they were sentenced, none of the prostitutes were sentenced correctly. Only 15 of the 320 cases were found guilty in a group of cases they had selected. In the final decades of the 20th century, establishments similar to brothels reentered the city. New businesses like peepshows, massage parlors, and bars featuring live showgirls opened. In the 1980s, however, most were shut down and turned into condominiums, restaurants, and high-end retail stores.

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and inhumane treatment. Following the "breaking-in", the victims were either smuggled into homes (including Customs House Place on Jackson Street) or resold to other brothel operators for approximately $ 50 to $ 300, depending on their age and appeal. The inhumane working hours usually went from noon to five in the morning. During this time the girls often consumed

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Ring", where their victims are often young girls from rural areas, lured to Chicago by the promise of marriage. They were then raped ("broken in") by the cadets. The girls suffered a martyrdom of drug abuse, beatings and rape. Only a few manage to free themselves from it. Many die prematurely from alcohol and drug abuse, as well as

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once visited one of Hastings brothels and described the conditions in his socially critical article "If Christ came to Chicago." Legend has it that some of the girls managed to smuggle out a note reading "I am being held as a slave" to alert the police to this crime. In 1895, after nine girls escaped

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was the owner and madam of the Everleigh Club with her sister Ada Everleigh. She was the mingler, the one who did all the talking for the club. She was almost framed for the murder of two different men, Marshall Field Jr. first and Nathaniel Ford Moore five years later by Vic Shaw, who also convinced

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of 13 to 17 years of age on the pretext of earning good money in Chicago. In one of her notorious houses, they took their clothes off and were abused by six "professional" rapists. This was the process called in the jargon of the trade, "The Life", which included a continuing ordeal of abuse, rape,

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and San Francisco. She was one of the first women to systematically operate "White Slavery" in around 1890. Using bribes, (about $ 2.00 per week to the local patrol) or services of the girls to officials, she escaped police investigation for many years. Her houses were considered the worst brothels

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Maurice Van Bever, Big Jim's partner; operated two saloons called the Paris and the White City. The trafficking ("interstate ring" between several states), which he operated together with his wife Julia, confirmed by statements of the minor Loretta Campbell, who was abducted from St. Louis and was

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Freiberg's Dance Hall, a brothel between 22nd Street, Wabash Street and State Street. The restaurant offered a bar, dance floor and contact with prostitutes. According to the Chicago Vice Commission, the dance hall was one of the most infamous venues in Chicago, after it was learned that women were

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was the owner and madam of the Everleigh Club with her younger sister Minna. Ada played the role as the executive who balanced the books. She also made it her priority to keep the club clean and spent half of her time wiping the mirrors, straightening oil paintings, and checking the Gold Piano for

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The Bucket of Blood, a saloon on the southwest corner of 19th Street and Federal. This bar was mentioned in a newspaper in 1916 for serving still liquor after the curfew. The name most likely comes from the fact that in the morning, after numerous brawls and stabbings, blood had to be cleaned from

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In the beginning of the 1920s, vice syndicates of the time moved to the suburbs where law enforcement was easier to persuade. Although laws were established to control or eliminate prostitution, they were not backed up by the court system. "In many cases, the defendant did not appear in trial in

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1903–1909 – Van Beven and Colosimo engage in trafficking of young prostitutes who are scheduled to so-called "cadets" (pimps) on a five-year rotation between brothels. From there, the girls descend to working at hour hotels and then street prostitution. Colosimo and Van Beven lead a "White Slave

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The difficult process to close down the entire Levee District began on January 9, 1910, when Nathaniel Ford Moore died in Victoria "Vic" Shaw's brothel. She wanted to frame Minna Everleigh for the death, but Everleigh found out about Moore before Shaw got the chance. Shaw was forced to call the

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Although the Levee District had closed down in 1912, prostitution continued to be a problem in Chicago. The closing of the Levee had initiated changes throughout the city's sexual commerce. There were no brothels, but that didn't stop many men and women. They moved from brothels and saloons to

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When anti-vice reformers protested the ball, Kenna justified it as benefiting the people in the district through educational and community programs. The First Ward Ball of 1908 was the most significant because it was the last one to be attended by the Levee's most prominent figures. That year,

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The Chicago nightlife district was initially located downtown in the First District. However, after the Great Fire of Chicago in 1871, it moved to the south of the city. Before 1890, the area known as Customs House Levee became a gathering place for players and pimps, and was one of the most

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ordered the closure of the Everleigh Club. It was shut down the following day. Many businesses in the Levee District closed in 1911, but the district held on for two more years. One of the last brothels to close was Freiberg's Dance Hall, which celebrated its last night on August 24, 1914.

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George Little owned a saloon called Here It Is and ran a combination bar and brothel called the Imperial on Armour Avenue, right next to one of Van Bever's dives. He was also considered to the Levee Czar meaning he was sent personally by Hinky Dink and Big Jim to collect protection

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in the city, in which any kind of perverted wishes were fulfilled. She was credited with saying, "If a girl was good enough to be accepted at ordinary brothel, then she was too good for her own". From about 1893, she attracted young girls from rural areas of the

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Vic Shaw, born Emma Elizabeth Fitzgerald. A madam to a house on South Dearborn Street who hated and felt threatened by the Everleigh sisters. Her girls were not treated very well. They were harshly disciplined and not always given proper examinations by

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Map of the 19th Precinct and 1st Ward at Chicago by Stead W. T, in his book "If Christ came to Chicago! A Plea for the Union of All Who Love in the Service of All Who Suffer", records 46 saloons, 37 "houses of ill-fame", and 11 pawnbrokers in

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notorious criminal districts in Chicago. According to one newspaper, Chicago was at that time considered "the most violent, dirtiest cities – loud, lawless, ugly, offensive, godless; an oversized, stupid village." In cooperation with the

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Devout Christian communities protested at the beginning of the 20th century against prostitution and gambling in the Levee. At its peak, up to 5,000 prostitutes worked in the local brothels. Increasingly, the public became aware of

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from the 1880s until 1912, when police raids shut it down. The district, like many frontier town red-light districts, got its name from its proximity to wharves in the city. The Levee district encompassed four blocks in Chicago's

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Monsieur Emond, a French dressmaker at the Everleigh Club, who had told a man investigating Marshall Field Jr's death the name of two girls in the club, going by the names of Camille and Hughs, who had played a role in his

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The CVC focused on terminating vice districts, and on investigating the conditions for women in the Levee. The members spoke to prostitutes, police, and neighborhood organizations. They published the report

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1912 – Due to public pressure, prostitution in the Levee is targeted. The City of Chicago's "Moral Division" embarks on a mass arrest of prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers, contract killers, bar owners and

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area, initially between Harrison and Polk, between Clark and Dearborn, and then the newer Levee district, between 18th and 22nd streets. It was home to many brothels, saloons, dance halls, and the famed

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was the alderman of the First Ward who owned a saloon on Clark street called the Workingman's Exchange. Here he would bribe people to vote for him by offering a free lunch and mug of beer for a nickel.

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1910 – The estimated gross proceeds from prostitution are $ 60 million and the net gain is $ 15 million. In the same year, brothel owners found the protective association, "Friendly Girlfriends".

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The House of All Nations (between Archer Street and Cullerton Street), where, similar to the Parisian establishment of the same name, girls from different countries of the world could be found

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was a black madam and brothel owner in the Levee district for thirty years. At the height of her success, she employed sixty prostitutes and gave daily meals to those unemployed from the

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police to report the death after which her brothel was closed. A year later, on October 3, 1911, the state's attorney issued warrants for 135 people associated with the Levee, including

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The Levee District was home to many brothels, saloons, dance halls, and similar places. Chicago's first brothels were built on Wells Street. Among the most famous establishments were:

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marks (the Gold Room was her favorite room). The Everleigh Club was the best brothel in the Levee and girls considered it to be a superior position to get picked into staying there.

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Reverend Ernest Albert Bell, a preacher who would walk around the Levee streets every night besides Monday to protest the Custom House Place and tried to get the mayor to close it.

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1920s – Under the influence of Kenna and Coughlin, gambling in the Levee continues to grow. The Chicago Outfit increasingly shifts prostitution to other districts like

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cabarets, nightclubs and other nighttime scenes. Solicitation was still available, and the sex entrepreneurs were still willing to pay law enforcement to keep quiet.

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December 10, 1911 – Inspector P.D. O'Brien implements measures against alcohol consumption and music performance, also banning unaccompanied women remaining in bars.

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1910 – Colosimo opens the cabaret "Colosimos Café" in the heart of the Levee at 2126 South Wabash. The well-kept restaurant with a sophisticated ambience plays both

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October 3, 1911 – Charges are brought against a total of 135 people associated with the Levee. These include "Big Jim" Colosimo, Ed Weiss, Roy Jones and Vic Shaw.

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Panzy Williams, Madam of a brothel, who was convicted for refusing to surrender one of her girls to her parents, who had asked for their daughter back in 1907.

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from the brothel under daring conditions, the criminal machinations of Mary Hastings were blown open. The police were forced to act and Hastings fled to

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Ed Weiss, brothel owner next to the Everleigh Club who would pay off the Levee cabdrivers to drive drunken men to his door instead of the Everleigh Club.

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The lowest level of the brothels formed the simple houses in the Bed Bug Row, spanning from Dearborn Avenue and Federal to 19th Street and Archer. The

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Victoria Colosimo was married to Jim Colosimo and helped him run pool halls and saloons. She operated two of the dives, the Victoria and the Saratoga.

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combined. The metropolis, whose brothels and arcades are larger and more revealing than elsewhere, was once considered the "craziest city in the US".

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Swanson, Stevenson (November 19, 1981). "Courts fail to back city's tough prostitution law: study: Courts fail to back city prostitution law".

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ran the First Ward with Hinky Dink and owned a tavern on West Madison named, "Silver Dollar Saloon." Many people called him "Bathhouse" John.

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often kidnapped and forced into prostitution from there. Kenna and Coughlin resided at Freiberg's Dance Hall. It closed on August 24, 1914.

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picked up in a raid in the "White City". Van Bever drove hundreds of prostitutes into the homes of Colosimos and was arrested in 1909.

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Belle Schrieber, a working girl in the Everleigh Club, who was kicked out for sneaking around with a boxer named Jack Johnson.

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January 9, 1910 – Nathaniel Ford Moore (born January 31, 1884), a well-known American golfer and son of the President of the

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in 1915 reactivated the illegal business in the Levee. Many of the brothels were reopened as hotels, saloons or cabarets.

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against the "White Slavery". The wording prohibits the "transport of a woman across national borders for immoral purposes"

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John "Mushmouth" Johnson was the first African American vice lord who opened a saloon and gambling house on State Street.

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Anti-"white slavery" parade through Chicago's Levee district on October 18, 1909, led by British evangelist Gypsy Smith.

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1895 – Jim Colosimo moves to the Levee District, which already includes 2,000 brothels, saloons and gambling salons.

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A member of the anti-vice Midnight Mission (left), and Levee district prostitutes walking the street (c.1911).

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In order to receive protection, Levee inhabitants would attend the biggest event in the district, the annual

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Brothel "The Paris", 2101 Armor Street. The establishment was run by Maurice Van Bever, who was accused of "

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Pony Moore was the owner of two levee dives called the Turf Exchange Saloon and the Hotel De Moore resort.

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July 18, 1914 – The closure of brothels in the Levee causes violence, during which a police officer dies.

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Ed Weiss's Capitol, a dance hall owned by Ed Weiss whose brother Louis also owned the brothel The Sapphos

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arias. It quickly becomes the center of Chicago's nightlife, attracting politicians, artists and actors.

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Pony Moore (who had no relation to Nathaniel) to go in on it the first time by bribing him $ 40,000.

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August 24, 1914 – Closure of Freiberg's Dance Hall as one of the Levee's last long-standing clubs.

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to reorganize the situation there. Capone began his career in the restaurant in this district

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1893 – The brothels and gambling saloons of the Levee attracted a crowd of visitors from the

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and his wife Victoria Moresco took over three brothels and control of the district. His

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Minister and anti-vice crusader Ernest A. Bell preaching on the street in Levee district

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The Levee District's success in vice came to an end when reformers such as the WCTU and

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Lillian St. Clair, also kicked out of the Everleigh Club for the Jack Johnson incident.

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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul

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May 15, 1900 – The Chicago Vice Commission seeks to close brothels for the first time.

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Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc.

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Caricature of "Lords of the Levee" – "Bathhouse John" Coughlin and "Hinky Dink" Kenna

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Bessie Wallace, also kicked out of the Everleigh Club for the Jack Johnson incident.

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Virginia Bond, also kicked out of the Everleigh Club for the Jack Johnson incident.

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October 22, 1913 – The Mayor of Chicago obtains the closure of Ed Weiss's Capitol.

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I've Got to Make My Livin': Black Women's Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago

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Roy Jones, Vic Shaw's husband who operated a casino on State Street.

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Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld

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anti-vice reformers tried to stop the ball by bombing its venue,

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1905 – Colosimo opens his first saloons and single-hour hotels.

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in New York City. Torrio, a cousin of Victoria Moresco, sent

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February 1, 1900 – The luxury Everleigh Club opens its doors.

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leads a march of 200 Christians through the Levee District.

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Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St. Paul, 1865–1883

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The Everleigh Club at 2131–2133 South Dearborn Street.

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