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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Wicked Decatur

Wicked Decatur

Taylor, Troy

Hardcover

Regional: MidwestTrue Crime

Publisher Price: $31.99

ISBN10: 154022970X
ISBN13: 9781540229700
Publisher: History Pr
Published: Apr 4 2011
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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