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Lindberg, Richard, 1953- author.
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Crime -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
Organized crime -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
Criminals -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
Chicago (Ill.) -- History.
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Gangland Chicago : c...
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Gangland Chicago : criminality and lawlessness in the Windy City, 1837-1990 / Richard C. Lindberg.
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Lindberg, Richard, 1953- author.
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, c2016.
Subjects
Crime -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
Organized crime -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
Criminals -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
Chicago (Ill.) -- History.
ISBN:
9781442231955 (hardcover : alkaline paper) :
1442231955 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
Description:
xviii, 373 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 Outlawry and the Rise of a Criminal Class in the Emerging City -- 2 Downtown and Near South: Victorian Vice, Gamblers, Card Cheats, Chinese Tongs, and the Rise of Chicago's Organized Crime Gangs, 1870-1920 -- 3 Gangs of the South Side: Politics, Patronage, and Bare-Knuckle Boyos, 1860-1930 -- 4 Maxwell Street, the West Side Terror District, 1860-1930 -- 5 The Gold Coast and the Gangs: North Side Affluence, Little Hell, and Gang Crime, 1860-1930 -- 6 The Gangs of Prohibition-Era Chicago -- 7 Schools for Crime -- 8 Gangs Becoming Nations, 1950-1989 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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"Gangland Chicago is a revealing look at the Chicago underworld of yesterday and today. This comprehensive volume is sure to entertain and inform any reader interested in the evolution of organized crime and gangs in America's most representative city of the American Heartland,"--Amazon.com.
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