Monday Enrichment - Literature: Street Fight - The Chicago Taxi Wars of the 1920s

Author Anne Morrissy vividly recreates Chicago’s Taxi Wars, bringing this nearly forgotten story to print for the first time.   She introduces us to larger-than-life Jazz Age characters, including johnny Torrio, Al Capone, Joe Kennedy, Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey, and Chicago mayor” Big Bill” Thompson.  These deadly wars played out on the city’s streets nearly a century ago, endangering the lives of passengers and passersby, while at the same time forming the regulatory foundation that still governs cab, limo and rideshare transportation today.

 Anne Morrissy is a nonfiction author with a passion for narrative history.  She splits her time between Lincoln Park and her hometown of Williams Bay, Wisconsin.  She’s a graduate of Kenyon College and the editor of At The Lake Magazine in Lake Geneva.   Her writing has appeared in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, American Spirit Magazine and many regional publications. 

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