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Top: The Everleigh Club and other Levee District buildings being demolished, Chicago, 1933. Bottom: The entrance hallway of the Everleigh Club in its heyday. The Everleigh Club was a prominent brothel and the Levee District was a red-light district in the city. Photos via Forgotten Chicago
Fascinating history of the Levee District
The Everleigh Club, “the most famous brothel in America”
On this day in 1899 famous gangster Al Capone was born.
This is my photo of 2001 South State Street in Chicago, the only surviving building of the crime-ridden area once known as the Levee District. Before it was refacaded into the present-day Blue Star auto-supply store, it was built in 1878 as the old Cullerton Hotel. This was a popular hangout for Al Capone, who supposedly ran a brothel here. Until 1900 it was a very respectable hotel, then illegal gambling began to take place in the basement, and the upstairs became a brothel. Deep below the hotel survives a series of secret tunnels, an elaborate 25-mile system. Even today one can still see bricked-up entrances to these gangster getaways.
This to me is the most interesting thing I’ve ever posted. I could stare at these for hours.
Two meticulous maps showing the names and locations of every brothel, bar, casino and saloon that existed in the Cheyenne and Levee Districts of Chicago between 1870 and 1905.
Completed by Levee historian Bryan Lloyd.
Click to enlarge.
1905 Photo of Kenna's Workingmen's Exchange at what is now 427 S Clark. Barrels of beer await delivery.
Perhaps Chicago's most infamous bar, it was run by Michael "Hinky Dink" Kenna, a.k.a., the Lord of the Levee. Kenna was the alderman for the First Ward for many years and ran a protection/collection racket which kept every corrupt saloon, brothel and gambling house open despite contrary laws.
Read more here:
http://chicagocrimescenes.blogspot.com/2009/01/workingmans-exchange.html
The Paris, a brothel located at 2101 Armour St in the Levee District, c.1911, Chicago.
