Chicago Spirit

The Chicago Spirit (GoI-001) was an organized crime syndicate based in Chicago, Illinois during the early 20th century CE. Led by Richard D. Chappell, a seemingly powerful reality bender, the Spirit recruited many thaumaturges and reality benders to assist in their criminal activities of bootlegging.
It grew into a mighty criminal empire, though was rendered defunct after Chappell was arrested, and the Spirit absorbed by MC&D.
==History==
===Origins===
Richard D. Chappell and Mr. Night founded the Chicago Spirit initially as a bar in South Side, Chicago, Illinois in 1893. Two years later, after receiving very little money, the two reformed the Spirit into a criminal organization that sold black market anomalous items to bidders. Chappell was the frontman, while Mr. Night secretly ran the organization. By 1899, 410 people worked for Chappell, and he solidified his position in the criminal underbelly by 1900.GOI-001: Chicago Spirit
====SCP-2680====
When the Volstead Act was ratified on 16 January 1919, the SCP Foundation made an alliance with the Chicago Spirit to help spread the Agent Salk inoculation against SCP-2680 by spiking their bootlegged alcohol. In exchange, the Foundation would not assist any efforts to apprehend Spirit members or disrupt their activities. Additionally, the SCP Foundation was allowed to directly assist Spirit memers if it did not risk Foundation operative covers or lives. Joint Team I-3 "Rum Runners" was formed out of Investigative Team K-3 "Teetotalers" and Chicago Spirit members.Entry Page: 2680
====Chicago Outfit raid====
In 1919, the don of the Chicago Outfit mafia family, Johnny Torrio, executed a raid on the Chicago Spirit's headquarters, with his lieutenant Al Capone leading the attack. This raid was a disaster, though Capone survived the attack with a lasting fear of the Spirit.
===Height===
====Opening of the Secret Spirit====
In February 1921, the Spirit-operated Secret Spirit was opened in Manhattan's Lower East Side as part of Chappell's attempt to encroach upon New York speakeasy management. Protected by a trigger phrase antimeme, the Secret Spirit avoided the attention of both law enforcement and rival crime organizations.Entry Page: 3855
====Old Family Recipe====
At some point, Dalton partnered with the Chicago Spirit to produce his Old Family Recipe for moonshine. It seemingly used several esoteric ingredients, including blessed water, candies, night-harvested barley, foreign sugar and Factory coals. The recipe was kept tightly guarded, with Julius "Sawteeth" McGallan being the only other one privy to it for some time.
After the usual deliveryman turned traitor and had to be put down by Charles "Wheels" Derringer, he decided to make the delivery himself. After obtaining the ingredients and bribing a Second Hytoth priest to bless some water, he went to the designated shack in Centralia to deliver the goods. Derringer became curious to the recipe, and Dalton obliged him. In a note afterward, Derringer revealed the whole ritual was bunk: though the moonshine was good, there was no real magic involved in the creation. He approved the continued delivery of sugar and the Factory coal, as those seemed important, and the moonshine was the best in the world even with the bogus ritual.Carroll 011: Old Family Recipe
==== Mekhanite raid in Three Portlands====
In the winter of 1925, a Spirit speakeasy in Three Portlands was raided by Church of the Broken God adherents. 12 Spirit men were killed in the attack, prompting Chappell to personally lead an attack on a Broken God hideout. After kicking open the door, the Mekhanites were killed in a gunfight, while Chappell went to deal with the Mekhanite leader. As the leader was deep in meditation, Chappell broke a barrel of hydrofluoric acid over the leader, melting him alive. He later made bar trophies out of what was left. Consigliere Roland MacDell later recounted this to Foundation authorities in a testimony in 1926.
====Expanding the New York antimeme speakeasies====
In 1927, Chappell wrote an open letter addressing suggestions to open more antimemetic speakeasies in New York; he dismissed the idea, not liking the fact that customers will eventually catch on to the fact that they couldn't remember where they last drank at.
====Disappearance of Cassidy====
In late May 1928, Spirit associate Sid Cassidy was taken by Chappell and member Caspar Metzinger and subjected to a process that caused Cassidy's flesh to be used in the SCP-4146 phenomenon.Entry Page: 4146
==== Brewery raid====
In late 1928, McGallan went undercover at a Chicago Outfit brewery in order to sabotage its operations. On 1 November, the SCP Foundation and Bureau of Prohibition conducted a joint raid on the brewery to both shut down the Outfit's bootlegging operations there and to apprehend Sawteeth. 
However, after Sawteeth was doused in alcohol from a startled fall, Outfit associate Ottone Trevisan accidentally dropped his cigarette and ignited McGallan. The flaming Sawteeth ran around the building, killing the Irishmen working at the brewery who attempted to douse him in water. He eventually ran into the boiler, causing an explosion that eliminated McGallan and the Outfit mobsters, except for Trevisan, who was apprehended by the Foundation.Entry Page: 123-EX However, Sawteeth was later resurrected by Mr. Night three days later.Spirit Stories
==== Metzinger's death====
On 14 January 1929, Caspar Metzinger collapsed in the Chicago street and was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital, having an unknown foreign object in his abdominal cavity. As Metzinger was a Foundation informant, agents Timothy Sullivan and Jacob Weiss presided over the interview. Metzinger was delirious from the pain, and loosely described what happened to Cassidy and his stream of consciousness ramblings. Metzinger died in the afternoon, his body disappearing early in the morning the next day.
====Revenge for Sawteeth====
During Trevisan's containment as SCP-123, the Chicago Spirit kept an eye on his apartment in case he returned to enact revenge. They killed his mother by lynching and threw her in the Chicago River. Dr. Sharp, out of sympathy for Trevisan, paid for his apartment but stayed clear of the building, as he believed it wasn't safe. When Dr. Herbert reclassified SCP-123 as Explained on 11 May 1930, Trevisan was forced to return to Chicago on 1 June and was not provided any sort of protection against the Spirit.
He was discovered by the resurrected Sawteeth and other Spirit gangsters and horrifically tortured in his apartment for days, which could have possibly been localized weeks, months or even years due to time dilation spells being used within the apartment. His mutilated body was discovered on 29 June 1930 by the Chicago Police Department, McGallan exacting his revenge.
====Loss of the Secret Spirit ====
On 23 November 1930, Albert Jones, a co-owner of the Secret Spirit, was arrested by the New York Police Department due to a domestic dispute. He accepted a plea deal in exchange for information on the Chicago Spirit, and divulged what he knew, including the trigger phrase for the Secret Spirit. 
Soon, Foundation moles in the NYPD discovered this, and led a raid on the speakeasy on 25 December 1930 due to a tip from Jones that Chappell would attend for the Christmas party. Chappell discovered that a raid would occur, and he fled to Chicago before the party. The Secret Spirit was catalogued as SCP-3855 and became a Foundation-operated warehouse. Jones was relocated to Bangor, Maine as part of a witness protection program, having learned from their mistake with Trevisan.
====Spirit Stories====
On 31 October 1931, Bones, Flannagan, Robinson, Schultz and Tommy were waiting over the night at a Spirit business for a moonshine shipment in the morning; as it was Halloween, Tommy was positioned at the door in a ghost costume. The group was playing poker while gossiping about rumors among the Chicago Spirit, including Leggy and especially Mr. Night. Their continued gossip about Mr. Night ended in them figuring out that Night was the one behind the Spirit, not Chappell.
Night then revealed himself as Tommy, having killed and impersonated him due to his plans to rat to the SCP Foundation. Though the rest of the group pleaded for their lives, due to their realization of the true power behind the Spirit, Night proceeded to have them commit suicide using his ontokinesis. Afterward, he gave away candy to a few kids while still posing as Tommy.
====Disappearance of Beverly Queen====
In 1932, a missing person report for a 17-year-old female named Beverly Queen was filed with the CPD; Queen had been living with Chappell during this time. Her corpse was eventually extracted on 21 February 1982 from a 1912 edition of Collected Poems by Edgar Allan Poe affected by SCP-3138. It can be presumed that she was somehow absorbed into the text, breathing in the toxic ink and dying from its effects, with her body being eaten away at by the ink.Entry Page: 3138
====Death of Jones====
On 27 October 1932, Albert Jones was kidnapped and presumably killed by Mr. Night for his ratting to the authorities, leaving a note in his coat indicating that he couldn't hide from them.
===Decline===
====Night's cleanup ====
UIU File: 1941-016
==Organization==
===Death of higher ups ===
Should a high-ranking member of the Chicago Spirit be killed, and their killer be identified and/or alive, the killer would be hunted down by the Chicago Spirit and horrifically tortured to death, utilizing time dilation and sensory amplification. Members of the killers' family would also be targeted, as Mrs. Trevisan was lynched and thrown in the Chicago River while Ottone Trevisan, a Chicago Outfit associate who killed Julius McGallan, was contained by the SCP Foundation for "abnormal luck." 
People who were targeted and tortured to death for this reason include a man named Johnny, and the aforementioned Trevisan.
=== Relationships with other groups ===
==== The Factory ====
The Chicago Spirit made several dealings with the Factory, keeping questions to themselves in pursuit of profits.
==== Fifthism ====
While the Chicago Spirit did make a few dealings with the First Fifth Church of Manhattan, a Fifthist church in Manhattan, the Spirit regretted ever working with them due to the events that occurred afterward.
==== Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting ====
Several Spirit assets were reported to have originated from Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting, while some Spirit defectors "ran away to join the Circus."
==== The Hive ====
The Spirit kept some Hive correspondants around as security and for business, though the Chicago Spectre killed the last remnants of their Hive members due to strange things happening in their vicinity.
==== SCP Foundation ====
The SCP Foundation had a complex relationship with the Spirit, with a truce being active with them due to SCP-2680 that extended until Richard D. Chappell's arrest in 1933.
==== SAPPHIRE ====
The Spirit traded with SAPPHIRE's American branch during the 1920s, selling weapons and implements.
==== Unusual Incidents Unit ====
Both the FBI Unusual Incidents Unit and the Spirit have opposed each other due to being on opposite sides of the law.
==Notable members==
===Leaders ===
*Richard D. Chappell - Leader (puppet)
*Mr. Night - Leader (in truth)
===High Ranks=== 
*Hogarth Cartwright - Captain
*Charles Derringer - Lieutenant
*Roland MacDell - Consigliere
*Julius McGallan - Lieutenant
===Soldatos===
*Lawrence Amato - Soldato (formerly)Entry Page: 7778
*Bones - Soldato
*Flannagan - Soldato
*Leggy - Soldato
*Caspar Metzinger - Soldato, SCP Foundation informant
*Robinson - Soldato
*Schultz - Soldato
*Al Seward - Bodyguard
===Associates===
*Dalton - Bootlegger
*Sid Cassidy - Associate
*Anthony Dorfman - Bootlegger
*Albert Jones - Associate, co-owner of The Secret Spirit
*Riley O'Callahan - Speakeasy manager
*Jack Pillston - Accountant
*Vasily Sokolov - Russian Mafiya liaison
*Tommy - Associate
==Notable anomalies== 
*SCP-032-ARC
*SCP-039-ARC
*SCP-046-ARC
*SCP-1102-ARC
*SCP-3855
==Meta==
===Appearances===
*Entry Page: 2600-J
*GOI-001: Chicago Spirit
*Entry Page: 2680
*UIU Location Dossier — "Three Portlands"
*Zeitgeist
*Entry Page: 3138
*UIU File: 1941-016
*Entry Page: 3855
*Entry Page: 123-EX
*Spirit Stories
*Black As Night Hub
*'Night's Collection' (Lot C3S81)
*Entry Page: 4146
*Entry Page: 3874
*Carroll 011: Old Family Recipe
*Entry Page: 5350
*Entry Page: 7778
==References==
Category:Groups
Category:Groups of Interest
Category:Criminal organizations
Category:Paracriminal organizations