Murder and Mayhem in Chicago's Downtown

In the company of author Troy Taylor, pull off the trick of coming back alive from some of Chicago's most infamous &quote;one-way rides.&quote; Meet the deadly womanizer Johann Hoch, who would propose to a woman within twenty minutes of meeting her and then poison her within a week. Follow &quote;Terrible&quote; Tommy O'Conner as he eluded the gallows for more than fifty years, until the city finally grew &quote;tired of waiting&quote; and dismantled them for the final time. Learn how even flower shops and cathedrals weren't safe from gangland violence, and relive the tragic fire at the Iroquois Theatre, where a &quote;fireproof&quote; curtain was made of cotton and did little to stop the blaze that killed more people than the Great Fire of 1871.