Street Fight

“A seminal and ground-breaking study… Extraordinary, fascinating, and offering immense appeal to readers with an interest in the history of organized crime, the history of Chicago, and automotive/transportation history, Street Fight is recommended a prized and singularly unique addition to personal, professional, community, and college/university library collections.”– “Midwest Book Review”“Anne Morrissy’s lively new book, Street Fight: The Chicago Taxi Wars of the 1920s, concentrates largely on a decade-plus span, from the 1910s into the 1920s, when Yellow Cab and Checker Taxi battled it out with bombs, fists, bullets, threats, and bribery for control of a booming new urban service.”– “Chicago Reader”“Written like a heart racing thriller or true crime podcast, Street Fight is a fascinating look at this understudied conflict in the city’s history that combined a perfect storm of labor suppression, organized crime, government corruption, and turf warfare. Anne Morrissy’s latest is a must-read for history buffs of all kinds.”– “Chicago Review of Books”

Anne Morrissy is a professional writer and editor with more than fifteen years’ experience. She is a graduate of Kenyon College, where she received faculty distinction in her creative writing major.

Her work has reached more than three million readers through a variety of venues, including American Spirit Magazine, At the Lake Magazine, The Beacon (Williams Bay, WI), BrainConnection.com, Brava Magazine, Chicago Innerview Magazine, Chicago Style Weddings, Downtown Highland Park Magazine, Experience Wisconsin Magazine, Explore North Shore Magazine, Evanston Portrait Magazine, Honoring Our Ancestors, JustPressPlay.com,

Lakeshore Living Magazine, Medium.com, She. Magazine, Today’s Chicago Woman Magazine,

Walworth County Sunday, and Wisconsin Magazine of History.