Strange But True, Chicago Tales Of The Windy City

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punch King George V, staged a rodeo in the Chicago City Council, and served the world's largest martini * Uncover never-repealed laws that forbid "unsightly or disgusting" people from showing their faces in public, the carrying of hatpins, or offering a whiskey or a cigar to your dog *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 correctlyMontanarelli, Lisa is the author of 'Strange But True, Chicago Tales Of The Windy City', published 2006 under ISBN 9780762736805 and ISBN 0762736801.