If Christ Came to Chicago‪!‬

In 1893-4 crusading British editor W.T. Stead lived in Chicago for six months. He met with leaders campaigning against brothels and drinking dens, and subsequently published this bestselling classic. 


It contains the following chapters: 


Preface 


Part I. Some Images Ye Have Made of Me 

1. In Harrison Street Police Station 

2. Maggie Darling 

3. Whiskey in Politics 

4. The Chicagoan Trinity 

5. Who Are the Disreputables? 

6. The Nineteenth Precinct of the First Ward 


Part II. Christ’s Metewand in Chicago 

1. I Was An Hungred and Ye Gave Me Meat 

2. The Sheep and the Goats 


Part III. Satan’s Invisible World Displayed 

1. The Boodlers and the Boodeed 

2. The Tyranny of the Assyrian 

3. Dives the Tax Dodger 

4. Gambling and Party Finance 

5. The Scarlet Woman 


Part IV. Christ’s Church in Chicago 

1. The Churches of the Sects 

2. The Church Catholic and Civic 

3. Mayor Hopkins 

4. Bishop Brennan and His Secular Clergy 

5. How the Oracle Is Worked 

6. The Watchmen of the City 


Part V. What Would Christ Do in Chicago? 

1. The Conscience of Chicago 

2. “Lead Us Not Into Temptation!” 

3. Casting Out Devils 

4. The Brotherhood of Tabor 

5. Who Is My Neighbor? 

6. In the Twentieth Century 

7. A Closing Word