CHAPTER I.

Chicago—Its Development—Power of Criminal Classes in Its Government—Pretenses of Reform—Official Satisfaction—Public Condemnation—Truths as to Power of Criminal Classes.

CHAPTER II.

The Police Force—Its Strength—Composition—Power Dominating—Duties of Defined—Population of Chicago—Nativity of—Police Enemies of Civil Service—Demoralizing Effect—Tariff on Crime—Rates on Gambling Houses, Etc.—Penalty for Refusal to Pay—Instances of Police Rates—Method of Collection—Habits of Policemen—Some Are “Hold Up” Men—Blackmail Levied—Law Department—Arrests in 1897—Police Fix Boundaries for Crime—Chief’s Testimony—Analysis of Arrests in 1897 in Second Police Precinct—In City at Large—Division of Fees and Fines With Magistrates—Police Courts, Corrupt—Cost of Police Force.

CHAPTER III.

All Night Saloons—Character of—Thieves, Thugs and Prostitutes in—Visitors—Country Buyers, Transients, Delegates, Youth and Old Age—Women in—Character of—Basement Saloons—Scenes in—Private Rooms—Scenes in All Night Saloons—Dancing—Music—Morning Hours—Robberies, Etc., Planned—Girls Entrapped—Young Men Ruined—Quarrels—Raids—Drinking—Surroundings of—Houses of Ill Fame—Assignation Houses—Slumming Parties—Fads—Salvation and Volunteer Army—Houses of Ill Fame—Inmates of—How Managed—Practices in—Superstitions—Luck Powders—Sources of Supply—Patrons of—Wholesale House Entertainer—Police Protection—Diseases—Attempts at Reform—People Indifferent.

CHAPTER IV.

Re-election of Mayor—False Issue Upon Which Re-elected—Vices in Chicago—“Blind Pigs”—Protected by Police—Where Situated—How Conducted—Classes—Drug Stores, Bakeries, Barns—Revenue to Police—Located Near Universities—Lieutenant of Police Convicted for Protecting—Cock Fighting—Bucket Shops—Women Dealers—Pool Rooms—Police Play—Pulling of, Farcical—Views of Chief of Police—Players in—Landlords—Book Making—Alliance Between, and Police and Landlords—New York and Chicago—Chicago’s Police Force Worst—Hold Up Men—Methods—Victims—Police Sleep—Mayor’s Felicitations, April 11, 1899—Account of Hold Ups, Same Day—Classes of Hold Up Men—Strong Armed Women—Street Car Conductors Robbed—Ice Chests and Ovens for Prisons—Hair Clippers—Protection to Criminals—“Safe Blowers’ Union”—Fakes—Panel Houses—Badger Games—Nude Photographs—Obscene Literature—Confidence Men—Diploma Mills—Gambling—Women’s Down Town Clubs—Sexual Perverts—Opium Joints.

CHAPTER V.

Common Council—Boodlers—Bribers—Council of 1899—Powers of—Misuse of—Price of Votes—Passage of Boodle Ordinances—Public Works Department and Bureaus—Illegal Contracts—Street Repairing, Etc.—Civil Service Commission—History of—Present Board Tools of Mayor—Examination by—Examples of—Attacks Upon Law—Special Assessments—Asphalt Ring—Fire Department—County Government—Insane Asylum—Sale of “Cadavers”—Contracts—Sheriff’s Office—Jury Bribers—Judges—Revenue Law—Tax Dodgers—Town Boards—Coroner’s Office—Press Trust—Civic Societies—Berry Committee Report—Baxter Committee—Opening Testimony—Conclusion.