Also known as The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the La Grange Chicken Ranch made headlines after Channel 13's Marvin Zindler got it shut down after airing a series of investigative reports.

LA GRANGE, TX (KTRK) -- Halfway from Houston to Austin, you find an unassuming city forever tied to Eyewitness News History. La Grange has a population less than 6000. It sits along the Colorado ...

It was 44 years ago this week that the infamous Chicken Ranch in La Grange was shuttered. The brothel, also the subject of ZZ Top's blues-rock jam "La Grange," was an open secret in Texas for some ...

The Chicken Ranch, the storied brothel in La Grange, has been closed for 50 years, but it still resonates with Texans. San Antonio Express-News Hearst Newspapers Logo Skip to main content ...

Thirty-eight years, six months, and 24 days after authorities swooped in and shuttered the La Grange Chicken Ranch, the legendary brothel’s last madam has drawn her final breath.

Sometime in the mid-1960s, Edna Milton, the madam in charge of the Chicken Ranch in La Grange, Texas, received a phone call from a regular customer who had become an aide to President Lyndon Johnso… ...

HOUSTON — For over 100 years, the Texas Chicken Ranch was a Texas tradition. After Marvin Zindler cracked the story on the infamous La Grange brothel, the Chicken Ranch was further immortalized ...

The name of a storied Central Texas town—site of the infamous Chicken Ranch brothel celebrated in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas—is apparently a magnet for thirtysomethings on the prowl ...

Edna Milton Chadwell, the last madam of the Chicken Ranch, an infamous La Grange brothel which inspired a ZZ Top song, a Broadway hit and a movie starring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton, has died ...

HOUSTON — The last madam of the infamous Texas brothel that inspired the movie and Broadway show The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas has died in Phoenix. She was 84. Edna Milton Chadwell's ...

A look back at the history of the infamous Chicken Ranch in La Grange, Texas. To stream KHOU 11 on your phone, you need the KHOU 11 app. Download the KHOU 11 app. More Videos. Next up in 5.

But the legend of the Chicken Ranch lived on in ZZ Top's “La Grange,” released that year. It's a rock radio staple to this day. Chadwell was born in Caddo County, Okla., in 1928, the eighth of ...