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Anne Morrissy is the editor of At The Lake Magazine in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and the author of Running the Reds: The First 100 Years of the Water Safety Patrol 1920-2020. Her next book, Street Fight: The Chicago Taxi Wars of the 1920s, is pending publication with Lyons Press.

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