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Overview
In 1854, Decatur was nicknamed Hell's Half Acre.� By the 1910s and 1920s, the town was referred to as the Second Most Corrupt City in Illinois, � gaining notoriety as a place where murder, bootlegging, prostitution, kidnapping, gambling and political corruption were common. Members of the Decatur police force, like Troy Taylor's great-grandfather, were hard-pressed to bar the door against crime in a town that seemed determined to remain wide-open. Wicked Decatur presents a rogue's gallery of those who have slipped through the cracks of legality over the past century and a half.
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- ISBN-13: 9781609491604
- ISBN-10: 1609491602
- Publisher: History Press
- Publish Date: April 2011
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.5 pounds
- Page Count: 128
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