Chicago's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Murderous Mobsters, Midway Monsters, and Windy City Oddities

by Laura Enright

Established less than 200 years ago, Chicago has seen a lot of living in that short span of time. Burned to the ground early on, it’s been frozen and just recently flooded. Tucked away in the Midwest, it still rivals both coasts with its food, entertainment, and cultural venues. Chicago’s Most Wanted™: The Top 10 Book of Murderous Mobsters, Midway Monsters, and Windy City Oddities takes you on a tour of that toddlin’ town with dozens of top-ten lists containing memorable minutiae and delightful details. Laura L. Enright will blow you away with this collection of amusing and amazing facts about the Windy City. One would be hard-pressed to decide what Chicago is most famous for. Is it disasters, such as the Great Chicago Fire? Or perhaps gangsters are its calling card, with Al Capone at the head? Maybe it’s the politics, with “Hizzoner, da Mayor” and stories of votes coming from the dead. Or do sports come to mind first, like the Cubs’ dismal failures―some say due to a decades-old curse―and the glory days of da Bulls and da Bears? Whatever it is that makes Chicago, it’s in Chicago’s Most Wanted™. The famous and the infamous, festivals and food, blues and jazz, and so much more are all included in this collection of fascinating and often humorous trivia tidbits. Frank Sinatra rhapsodized that Chicago “won’t let you down,” and neither will Laura L. Enright’s Chicago’s Most Wanted™ !

300 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2005

About the author

I am the author of To Touch the Sun, and Ujaali books 1 and 2 in my Chicago Vampire Series published by Dagda Publishing and available through Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats. I'm also the author of "Chicago's Most Wanted™ The Top 10 Book of Murderous Mobsters, Midway Monsters, and Windy City Oddities" and "Vampires' Most Wanted The Top 10 Book of Bloodthirsty Biters, Stake-wielding Slayers, and Other Undead Oddities." I published "Trouble," a science fiction comedy with western overtones, on Kindle available now on Amazon. I'm interested in any number of things, far too many for my limited free time to accommodate. Never the less, I remain a giggling idiot for the ages and encourage the world to follow suit. Some already have. You know who you are.

Reviews

[Wes · Rating 2 out of 5]

A top ten list look at Chicago, (anyone remember The Book of Lists, or The People's Almanac?,) the book starts off strong with historical trivia. But as the book moves towards Sports and Entertainment lists it suffers from both increasing datedness and, frankly, a decline in writing quality. The last list of the book, dealing with quotes, seems to be entirely rehashed materials. (I can imagine the publisher calling: "We need three more pages, can you throw something together?")

[Tommy Akins · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book is really intense and shows whats going on and were and chicagos history

i like the part were he talks about the hauntings because i can relate to what happened because its by were i live and it tells what happened to all the people that died.

[Stephanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really interesting to read more about the history of my city.