Ada and Minna Everleigh

Ada (top) and Minna Everleigh, in portraits commissioned in Omaha, Nebraska in 1895

Ada and Minna Everleigh, born Ada and Minna Simms, were two American sisters who operated the Everleigh Club, a high-priced brothel in the Levee District of Chicago during the first decade of the twentieth century. Ada, the elder sister, was born in Greene County, Virginia, on February 15, 1864, and died in Charlottesville, Virginia, on January 5, 1960. Minna was born in Greene County on July 13, 1866, and died in New York City on September 16, 1948.

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