Blood Runs Green
The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago
- Contents
- Review Quotes

Chronology
Prologue: Requiem
1 “City of Big Shoulders”: The Convergence of the Clan
2 The United Brotherhood
3 The Dynamite War
4 “Secret Hatreds”: A Tale of Two Trials
5 “Boys, I Give Up”
6 “The Darkest and Bloodiest Mysteries of Secret Crime”
7 “The Whisper of Silence”
8 “Truth in Essentials, Imagination in Non-Essentials”: The Press and Public Entertainment
9 “A Theater of Great Sensations”
10 “Remember Cronin”
Acknowledgments
Note on Sources
Notes
Organizations and Terms
Bibliography
Index
"Chicago's reputation for dramatic crime and corruption predates Al Capone and Prohibition—by decades. In May 1889 Dr. P. H. Cronin, an esteemed physician, was found in a sewer. He was naked, dead, and savagely beaten. The investigation and trial caused an international sensation, and one of the world's first media circuses, over a story that involved Irish revolutionaries and reactionaries, secret societies, and even a French spy. . . . All at a time when Chicago had been burned down, and was reborn as the fast-growing city in America."
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