RE-ELECTION OF MAYOR--False Issue Upon Which Re-elected--Vices in Chicago--"Blind Pigs"--Protected by Police--Where Situated--How Conducted--Classes--Drug Stores, Bakeries, Barns--Revenue to Police--Located Near Universities--Lieutenant of Police Convicted for Protecting--Cock Fighting--Bucket Shops--Women Dealers--Pool Rooms--Police Play--Pulling of, Farcical--Views of Chief of Police--Players in--Landlords--Book Making--Alliance Between, and Police and Landlords--New York and Chicago--Chicago's Police Force Worst--Hold Up Men--Methods--Victims--Police Sleep--Mayor's Felicitations, April 11, 1899--Account of Hold Ups, Same Day--Classes of Hold Up Men--Strong Armed Women--Street Car Conductors Robbed--Ice Chests and Ovens for Prisons--Hair Clippers--Protection to Criminals--"Safe Blowers' Union"--Fakes--Panel Houses--Badger Games--Nude Photographs--Obscene Literature--Confidence Men--Diploma Mills--Gambling--Women's Down Town Clubs--Sexual Perverts--Opium Joints. CHAPTER V. COMMON COUNCIL--Boodlers--Bribers--Council of 1899--Powers of--Misuse of--Price of Votes--Passage of Boodle Ordinances--Public Works Department and Bureaus--Illegal Contracts--Street Repairing, Etc.--Civil Service Commission--History of--Present Board Tools of Mayor--Examination by--Examples of--Attacks Upon Law--Special Assessments--Asphalt Ring--Fire Department--County Government--Insane Asylum--Sale of "Cadavers"-- Contracts--Sheriff's Office--Jury Bribers--Judges--Revenue Law--Tax Dodgers--Town Boards--Coroner's Office--Press Trust--Civic Societies-- Berry Committee Report--Baxter Committee--Opening Testimony--Conclusion. CHAPTER I. CHICAGO--ITS DEVELOPMENT--POWER OF CRIMINAL CLASSES IN ITS GOVERNMENT--PRETENSES OF REFORM--OFFICIAL SATISFACTION--PUBLIC CONDEMNATION--TRUTHS AS TO POWER OF CRIMINAL CLASSES.