{"id":922,"date":"2007-11-27T19:26:19","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T19:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/speakerseries\/?p=99"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:34:17","slug":"karen-abbott-sin-in-the-second-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/2007\/11\/27\/karen-abbott-sin-in-the-second-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Abbott : Sin in the Second City"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"height: 441px\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"5\" width=\"480\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"71%\"><em>Featured Guest:<\/em> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/speakerseries\/files\/2011\/02\/abbo_9781400065301_aup.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-103\" title=\"abbo_9781400065301_aup\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/speakerseries\/files\/2011\/02\/abbo_9781400065301_aup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Karen Abbott<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured Book:<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Sin in the Second City<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Date &amp; Location:<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Wednesday, November 7, 2007- 6:00  p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\nCrown Center Auditorium, LSC<br \/>\n6525 North Sheridan Road<\/p>\n<p><em>Free Admission<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Reception and Book Signing will follow.<\/p>\n<p>A free lance journalist, Karen Abbott writes for such publications as  Philadelphia Magazine, Philadelphia Weekly and Salon.com. Ms. Abbott\u2019s work has  garnered glowing reviews from peers like Erik Larson, Sara Gruen, and Darin  Strauss<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Shady dealings and seedy times in Chicago are explored by Karen Abbott in her  first book <em>Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the  Battle for America&#8217;s Soul<\/em>. The notorious dealings inside the Everleigh Club  are brought to light in this \u201cwell-researched slice of Windy City history\u201d says  Publishers Weekly.<\/p>\n<p>Characters abound in this book, as Ms. Abbott details  the intertwined lives and careers of Minnie and Ada Everleigh, Mayor Carter  Harrison II, John Wayman, Hinky Dink Henna, Dean Sumner and Vic Shaw. All  factions of intrigue, church, politics and crime are represented.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RESERVATIONS ACCEPTED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To R.S.V.P. contact Carol Franklin at 773 508-2641 or <a href=\"mailto:cfrankl@luc.edu%20\">cfrankl@luc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Co-sponsored by<a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.luc.edu\/\"> Alumni and Special  Events<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured Guest: Karen Abbott Featured Book: Sin in the Second City Date &amp; Location: Wednesday, November 7, 2007- 6:00 p.m. Crown Center Auditorium, LSC 6525 North Sheridan Road Free Admission Reception and Book Signing will follow. A free lance journalist, Karen Abbott writes for such publications as Philadelphia Magazine, Philadelphia Weekly and Salon.com. Ms. Abbott\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5858],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}