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About this book
Perhaps no city has a more fabled past than Chicago, home of legendary Al Capone. But that fabled past is often portrayed separate from the surrounding web of social realities, without which no event, no period in time can be understood.
Historic Photos of Chicago Crime: The Capone Era addresses this problem by opening with a compelling look at Chicago's cityscape to include a broad range of cultural phenomenaāfrom suffrage to jazzāessential to the contextualization of crime in the 1920s and 1930s. The history then proceeds as its title suggestsāto a riveting overview of crime in Chicago, chock-full of images documenting notorious gangsters and gruesome gangland wars. Al Capone, John Torrio, Earl "Hymie" Weiss, George "Bugs" Moran, and a host of others are all here. Replete with insightful captions and penetrating chapter introductions by historian John Russick, these photos offer a unique view into Chicago and its nefarious past.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION - CHICAGO IN THE CAPONE ERA
- CHICAGO IN THE ROARING TWENTIES
- BIRTH OF THE CHICAGO GANGSTER
- GANGLAND CHICAGO
- THE END OF THE CAPONE ERA
- NOTES ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS