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SUMMARY:Monday Enrichment - Literature: Street Fight - The Chicago Taxi War
 s of the 1920s
LOCATION:Nineteenth Century Charitable Association 178 Forest Avenue Oak Pa
 rk IL
DESCRIPTION:Author Anne Morrissy vividly recreates Chicago’s Taxi Wars\, 
 bringing this nearly forgotten story to print for the first time. She intr
 oduces us to larger-than-life Jazz Age characters\, including johnny Torri
 o\, Al Capone\, Joe Kennedy\, Gene Tunney\, Jack Dempsey\, and Chicago may
 or” Big Bill” Thompson. These deadly wars played out on the city’s s
 treets nearly a century ago\, endangering the lives of passengers and pass
 ersby\, while at the same time forming the regulatory foundation that stil
 l governs cab\, limo and rideshare transportation today. Anne Morrissy is 
 a nonfiction author with a passion for narrative history. She splits her t
 ime 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 i
 n Lake Geneva. Her writing has appeared in the Wisconsin Magazine of Histo
 ry\, American Spirit Magazine and many regional publications. Free and ope
 n to the public. Donations are welcome! To live stream this program\, visi
 t our website. A recording will also be available from the website one wee
 k later. https://ncca.memberclicks.net\n\nhttps://www.oprfchamber.org/even
 ts/94077
URL:https://www.oprfchamber.org/events/94077
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