Wingfoot? Huh?

As an avid student of Chicago history, I'm ashamed to admit I had never heard of the Wingfoot Air Express crash. Flaming blimp crashes onto a LaSalle Street bank, breaking through the skylight and raining burning debris onto the banking floor, and killing thirteen people? Nope, no idea. The tragedy is the jumping-off point for a new book, Gary Krist's City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago, which sounds a hell of a lot more interesting than The Devil in the White City, which I still haven't read, being seemingly the last Chicagoan to do so.