End of Watch--Chicago Police Killed in the Line of Duty, 1853-2006 - Softcover

Edward M. Burke And Thomas J. O'Gorman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0978866320 ISBN 13: 9780978866327

Publisher: Chicago's Neighborhoods, Inc., 2006

Synopsis

The book examines the remarkable sacrifice of 526 sworn officers of the Chicago Police Department. The book includes a detailed narrative of each officer and the circumstances involved in their deaths that trace the heroic history of Chicago's finest. Information for each episode has been drawn from municipal records, police files, contemporaneous newspapers, court documents and ground breaking research. End of Watch is a very human story focusing on the great loyalty and honor emerging in the ordinary lives of extraordinary Chicagoans.

About this title

About the Author:

Alderman Edward M. Burke is the Dean of the Chicago City Council, its most well-known historian, and a former policeman. Thomas J. O'Gorman is a Chicago historian and storyteller, at home in the poetry of its urban life. Both have authored several books on Chicago history and architecture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chicago's Neighborhoods, Inc.
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0978866320
• ISBN 13: 9780978866327
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400