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Chicago Crime and Punishment

This is a guide to historical sources on crime focusing on the collections in the Chicago Collections Consortium.

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Leopold & Loeb

John Wayne Gacy

Black Sox Scandal

Jon Burge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr., sitting in profile in a courtroom during their murder trial for the murder of Bobby Franks, ca. 1924 July 25. Clarence Darrow, defense attorney for Leopold and Loeb, is sitting to the right of Leopold. Chicago History Museum, http://explore.chicagocollections.org/image/chicagohistory/71/9p2x98p/

Books and Other Published Sources

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Leopold & Loeb

H.H. Holmes

Richard Speck