Chad Lewis, who has been featured on the Discovery Channel and ABC, answers questions from the crowd after his presentation on Wisconsin’s gangster past. (Mara Matovich/Regional News)
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The original concrete and brick vault room still resides in the basement of the Watersedge B&B. Through the door and across the hall from the room stands the steel door of the old whiskey room. (Mara Matovich/Regional News)
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The Watersedge Bed and Breakfast, on Lake Como, at W4232 West End Road. (Photo by Mara Matovich/Regional News)
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George “Baby Face” Nelson used to frequent the Lake Como Hotel.
Main building of the Lake Como Hotel is shown here. The guesthouse and portions of the main house including the solid oak hand- carved staircase and inlaid parquet floors were built in Denmark in the 1880’s and then transported by boat to Chicago as the Danish Pavilion for the famed 1893 Columbian Exposition. In a modified form, it is known today as the French Country Inn.
This was during the era of Prohibition, from 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. federal government implemented a nationwide ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages.
Chad Lewis, who has been featured on the Discovery Channel and ABC, answers questions from the crowd after his presentation on Wisconsin’s gangster past. (Mara Matovich/Regional News)
The original concrete and brick vault room still resides in the basement of the Watersedge B&B. Through the door and across the hall from the room stands the steel door of the old whiskey room. (Mara Matovich/Regional News)
Main building of the Lake Como Hotel is shown here. The guesthouse and portions of the main house including the solid oak hand- carved staircase and inlaid parquet floors were built in Denmark in the 1880’s and then transported by boat to Chicago as the Danish Pavilion for the famed 1893 Columbian Exposition. In a modified form, it is known today as the French Country Inn.
