Roaring Twenties Roleplay in SL Chicago

When I'm not touting the wonders of New Toulouse--my home in SL with its wonderfully creative and friendly people and an extremely beautiful Jazz Age setting--I'm always on the lookout for other builds with the vintage spirit.  On Rich Island, you can step back in time to 1920s Chicago.  As a historian, I find one of the best things about SL is the way in which roleplay can motivate research and reading into different periods and places in time, making studying history immersive fun.  Visit here and come play gangsters and FBI agent while you listen to jazz at the Fiume Club; come outfit yourself properly with period day dresses, night gowns, hats, gloves and stockings from Zan's Closet, Cill'angel's Boutique or Eclectica if you want to be a gangster's moll.  If you would rather be like Al Capone, Swank Brothers has the suit and hat for you.  Monarch features car designs that are also true to period, so you don't have to make your way down Michigan Avenue on foot if you don't want to.  The shopping area is RP-optional and combat-free, but cross the river and you will be warned that you have entered a combat area.  At the corner of Willow and Morgan you can catch a taxi that will take you on a guided tour of the sim, and you will feel like you just stepped into the frame of one of my all-time favorite movies, The Sting, as you find yourself stepping over streetcar tracks and dodging falling cigarette butts from the El.  The builder (and local Police Chief), Shepham Moorlord, has included a church and cemetary, Cook County Hospital, a gas station, a hotel, a movie theater, a deli, a barbershop, a bookstore, a police station, and (of course) City Hall.  And since the 1920s means Prohibition, gun-running and illegal liquor, there are speakeasies on every corner, and a new casino.  All the urban amenities are there for the playing!  Keep up with the happenings and fashions in SL Chicago by reading The Chicagoan(http://slchicagoan.wordpress.com/).