An iniquitous den of vice and ribaldry on the Near South Side, the Levee offered the Everleighs a wide-open red-light district in which to ply their trade and easy access to cash-flush customers looking for good times with just a touch more class. What is fact is that in 1899, after a short stint running a cathouse in Omaha that didn’t have the high-flying clientele they wanted, the sisters found a spot with everything they were looking for: Chicago’s Levee district. The most famous madams of their day, Minna and Ada Everleigh originally came from money in the South-or so they said their accounts of their background were laced with blarney and hokum. Atlanta-based journalist Abbott debuts with a dispatch from the seething underbelly of old-time Chicago, where a pair of sisters ran the finest whorehouse in the land.
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