Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we talk with another SIU Press author: Richard C. Lindberg, who wrote 2020’s Tales of Forgotten Chicago.
This book contains twenty-one fascinating, little-known stories about a great city and its people. Lindberg has dug deeply to reveal lost historical events and hidden gems from Chicago’s past. Spanning the Civil War through the 1960s, the volume showcases forgotten crimes, punishments, and consequences: poisoned soup that nearly killed three hundred leading citizens, politicians, and business and religious leaders; a woman in showbiz and her street-thug husband whose checkered lives inspired a 1955 James Cagney movie; and the first police woman in Chicago, hired as a result of the senseless killing of a young factory girl in a racially tinged case of the 1880s.