tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58563640551252225.post1966775897285285082..comments2024-03-28T23:39:43.394-05:00Comments on The Chicago Crime Scenes Project: The Workingmen's ExchangeKendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469814413112068249noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58563640551252225.post-92139024781466996232022-05-09T14:02:21.998-05:002022-05-09T14:02:21.998-05:00If the address is 427 S Clark, it would be on the ...If the address is 427 S Clark, it would be on the east side of Clark, where the jail is. Right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58563640551252225.post-29486898613103717622014-11-08T15:38:52.495-06:002014-11-08T15:38:52.495-06:00The 1860 Republican National Convention in Chicago...The 1860 Republican National Convention in Chicago nominated home-state candidate Abraham Lincoln. The tragic years that followed divided the nation and cost many lives but proved to be very good for the City by the Lake. Since it was situated at the apex of the Great Lakes and in the center of the nation, Chicago rapidly grew into a major transit hub.<br /><br />The large numbers of troops needed by the Union had to be supplied and many of those goods came from Chicago. The Meat Packers were born and grew to large success as did the Major Railroads that were constructed with Chicago as the center.<br /><br />Where there are large sums of money to be made, there are criminals ready to take it. Such was the case in the Windy City. The Labor Unions that came to power in the 1870's and 80's were dominated by criminal figures who kept their power via bare knuckles and guns when needed. <br /><br />http://illinoissocialmedialaw.blogspot.com/2014/11/illinois-politics-and-crime.htmlAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10891076986598816493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58563640551252225.post-14809402777589013772014-08-09T04:26:00.252-05:002014-08-09T04:26:00.252-05:00Bail bond attorney understands the bail bonding pr...Bail bond attorney understands the bail bonding process and knows what to do when you first get out of jail. <a href="http://www.ccbailbonds.com" rel="nofollow">Bail Bonds in Crestview</a> will offer bail bonds service in all their state and cities and free consultancy regarding the bail.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11122675780722620430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58563640551252225.post-61687869359704890962009-05-27T22:07:47.202-05:002009-05-27T22:07:47.202-05:00Hmmm. You might be right about that. I'll look i...Hmmm. You might be right about that. I'll look into it a little more closely.<br /><br />Glad you enjoy the blog!Kendallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03469814413112068249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58563640551252225.post-9102842259317128362009-05-26T14:26:11.803-05:002009-05-26T14:26:11.803-05:00Wendt and Kogan refer to the Hink's bar as the Wor...Wendt and Kogan refer to the Hink's bar as the Workingmen's Exchange in their 1942 book Lords of the Levee.(instead of the Workingman's Exchange. not sure which one is correct.)<br />Your sight is incredible. Thank You.joe Sikorahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14297416888977976594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58563640551252225.post-61410457337493866292009-01-31T12:23:00.000-06:002009-01-31T12:23:00.000-06:00Thanks very much for adding this. The analogies b...Thanks very much for adding this. <BR/><BR/>The analogies between criminals and politicians are closer than most would like to admit, and Kenna exemplified them more than anyone else.Kendallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03469814413112068249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58563640551252225.post-32913519614297532912009-01-27T10:30:00.000-06:002009-01-27T10:30:00.000-06:00Excellent post, Kendall. Here's Nelson Algren's cl...Excellent post, Kendall. Here's Nelson Algren's classic take on Kenna and his "procuring" of votes, from Chicago: City on the Make:<BR/><BR/>By the time Hinky Dink Kenna came along you had to cut in closer to answer the reverend's question ["Are you a Christian?"]. For in The Hink the border apache became a working citizen, a property owner assuming civic responsibilities, commanding a ward-wide loyalty and professing some sort of faith or other come Sunday morning. A hustler's hustler, part philanthropist and part straight brigand, The Hink sought his personal salvation in the ballot box.<BR/><BR/>Like the city that bred him, he had a heavenly harpist on his bedpost as well as a hustler's imp stoking the furnace: when hard times came he fed and sheltered more hungry and homeless men than all the Gold Coast archangels put together. And felt frankly outraged when the archangels accused him of trading free lunches for votes at his Workingman's Exchange.<BR/><BR/>He'd paid fifty cents in cold cash for every vote he'd bought, he'd let the archangels know - but what about the missions that were buying blackened souls in exchange for blacker coffee and the easy promise of a heavenly throne? Why was it less noble to pay cash here and now? Let the Gold Coast archangels answer him that.<BR/><BR/>Those same pious Gold Coasters who took the Righteous Horrors at the nightly carnival put on by the First Ward cribs - while secretly pocketing rents off those same terrible cribs.<BR/><BR/>Yet in standardizing the price of the vote The Hink did more to keep the city running one bitter winter than did all the balmy summers of Moody's evangelism. Not even to mention Lucy Page Gaston's command that the Chicago Cubs stop smoking cigarettes immediately.<BR/><BR/>Who came out the truer Christian in a hassle like that?<BR/><BR/>For always our villians have hearts of gold and all our heroes are slightly tainted. It always takes someone like The Hink, in whom avarice and generosity mingled like the hot rum and the cold water in his own Tom-and-Jerries, to run a city wherein the warmth of heart and a freezing greed beat, like the blood and the breath, as one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com