Gangland Chicago
Subtitle: criminality and lawlessness in the Windy City, 1837-1990
By: Richard C. Lindberg
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9781442231955; 9781442231962
Subjects: Organized crime; Crime; Criminals; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Outlawry and the rise of a criminal class in the emerging city; title: Downtown and Near South: Victorian vice, gamblers, card cheats, Chinese tongs, and the rise of Chicago's organized crime gangs, 1870-1920; title: Gangs of the South Side: politics, patronage, and bare-knuckle boyos, 1860-1930; title: Maxwell Street, the West Side terror district, 1860-1930; title: The Gold Coast and the gangs: North Side affluence, Little Hell, and gang crime, 1860-1930; title: The gangs of Prohibition-era Chicago; title: Schools for crime; title: Gangs becoming nations, 1950-1989.