The Vice Bondage of a Great City; or, the Wickedest City in the World

The author delivers a forceful exposé of systemic vice and political corruption in Chicago, documenting how organized vice operations—prostitution, white slavery, gambling, and related enterprises—are sustained by colluding police and partisan interests. Chapters outline the vice trust’s mechanisms, ballot manipulation, the stages of exploitation in red-light districts, and numerous graft schemes from massage parlors to laundry and saloon protection. The narrative combines affidavits, figures, and case accounts with warnings to parents and practical remedies, urging civic action and municipal reform to uproot entrenched corruption and protect vulnerable youth.