When Madeline Sturla shot Charley Stiles to death in Chicago’s Palmer House Hotel in 1882, it looked like an open-and-shut case. But in a Gilded Age #MeToo moment, her abusive lover would also be on trial. And so would the city’s shameful tolerance for gambling and prostitution—the vices that ultimately led her to confront Stiles with a loaded gun.
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