“…Here, too, Deputy Soviet Premier Anastas Mikoyan took a break from the Cold War by stopping to break bread with an ordinary Uptown family, while in Edgewater, a “Kitchen Revolt” by some not-very-ordinary housewives sent once-invulnerable machine ward boss Marty Tuchow on his way to Club Fed.
Edgewater was also where William Heirens dismembered little Suzanne Degnan and home to the “Burglar Cops” moonlighting out of the old Summerdale police station, triggering a seismic scandal that brought in outsider Orlando Wilson, a California criminology professor with little practical police experience…”
— Patrick Butler | Hidden History of Uptown & Edgewater | p. 13