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...most luxurious bordello which the U.S. ever saw was Chicago's Everleigh Club. It was run by the Virginia-born Everleigh sisters, Minna and Ada, two corseted women who insisted on being treated as gentlewomen at all times...
...First Ward was a politician's paradise. Its bawdy districts, "Little Cheyenne" and "the Levee," were solid with gambling joints, peep shows, flophouses and saloons, and harbored the riffraff of half a continent. The First Ward's blocks of bordellos ran from haughty establishments like the Everleigh house (wine: $12 downstairs; $15 in a room), to a "Bedbug Row" of noisome prostitutes' cribs. The jangle of its pianos never stopped...
When we reached the room, there on the mantelpiece calmly rested pictures of Venie Clancy as Evangeline, Neilson as Cymbeline, Fanny Davenport as Viola, Nellie Beaumont, Kate Everleigh, Maude Branscombe, &c., &c., all more or less nude, generally more...