Excerpt from Mysteries of Chicago There are those who will exclaim What good do you hope ih accomplish by the publication of such a book? They will shake their heads in condemnation of our work. The answer we make to all such is That poverty, disease and vice are lurking, riot only in the dark places, but in the business center of the city, and that many of the better class of citizens are apparently unaware of these existences. To assist them to carry out the necessary reforms, the character, object and aims of the proprietors of the dark places must be shown. When this is done, there is some hope of a' thorough moral scavenger work being inaugurated and vigorously prosecuted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.