Tag: Blood Runs Green

• Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago

  

    Almost 12,000 people streamed into the First Cavalry Armory on Michigan Avenue in Chicago on May 25, 1889 to view the coffin of Dr. P.H. Cronin, an Irish physician and political activist who had been savagely murdered. “It was one of the first ‘sensational’ murders covered by the Chicago press and far beyond,” says…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  August 4, 2016

  #books, #BookTok, American History, Chicago, History, True Crime

  #books, Blood Runs Green, Chicago, Clan na Gael, Cronin, Gillian O’Brien, University of Chicato Press