TY - BOOK AU - Hemon,Aleksandar AU - Bo�zovi�c,Velibor ED - Chicago History Museum. TI - The Lazarus Project SN - 9781594483752 AV - PS3608.E48 L39 2009 U1 - 813.6 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Riverhead Books KW - Averuch, Lazarus, KW - Murder KW - Illinois KW - Chicago KW - Fiction KW - Immigrants KW - Chicago (Ill.) KW - Social conditions N2 - On March 2, 1908, nineteen-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, a recent Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe to Chicago, knocked on the front door of the house of George Shippy, the chief of Chicago police. When Shippy came to the door, Averbuch offered him what he said was an important letter. Instead of taking the letter, Shippy shot Averbuch twice, killing him. When Shippy released a statement casting Averbuch as a would-be anarchist assassin and agent of foreign political operatives, he all but set off a city and a country already simmering with ethnic and political tensions. Now, in the twenty-first century, a young writer in Chicago, Brik, also from Eastern Europe, becomes obsessed with Lazarus story--what really happened, and why?-- ER -