Sarah Jennings, a student at Oak Stream High just west of Chicago, is terrified she won't get into a good university. So she decides to apply to the top 100 colleges in the country, plus her safety school, University of Illinois?all during the fall semester of her senior year. However, her application odyssey is only the beginning of the craziness, as Sarah and her best friends, Rob and Carrie, go on bizarre campus visits and experience surreal admissions decisions. But applying everywhere merely complicates the decision of which university to actually attend; a decision that ultimately only...
Sarah Jennings, a student at Oak Stream High just west of Chicago, is terrified she won't get into a good university. So she decides to apply to the t...
Although much has been written about Al Capone, there has not been--until now--a complete history of organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition. This exhaustively researched book covers the entire period from 1920 to 1933. Author John J. Binder, a recognized authority on the history of organized crime in Chicago, discusses all the important bootlegging gangs in the city and the suburbs and also examines the other major rackets, such as prostitution, gambling, labor and business racketeering, and narcotics. A major focus is how the Capone gang -- one of twelve major bootlegging mobs in...
Although much has been written about Al Capone, there has not been--until now--a complete history of organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition. Th...
