American Mafia
Subtitle: Chicago : true stories of families who made Windy City history
By: William Griffith
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Guilford, Connecticut
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780762778447
Subjects: Mafia; History; Organized crime; Criminals; Biography
Description: Everyone knows stories about the American Mafia and its varied forms of crime, from racketeering to stock manipulation to murder. American Mafia: Chicago explores the Windy City, strolling through its neighborhoods and imagining scenes from the past—telling the stories of the men, women, and families and revealing the events behind the legends and the history of the families' beginnings and founding members. Featuring the most fascinating stories from the early days, when loosely-organized, incredibly secretive gangs terrorized neighborhoods with names like Little Hell, through the mob's headiest years, when Al Capone and his men pretty well controlled the city, American Mafia: Chicago offers tantalizing glimpses into the era when Chicago was ruled by gangs with their ever-twisting allegiances and tangled webs of relationships. Most of the buildings are gone now. But the stories are still there, if you know where to look.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Little hell and the Black Hand; title: Il diavolo and the Devil's gang; title: Big Jim and Johnny the fox; title: The beer wars of '23; title: The end of the alliance; title: Death of a big shot; title: Revenge follows revenge; title: The brief reign of the Genna brothers; title: Capone's first mistake; title: The bark of the guns; title: Peace in the city?; title: A new Chicago; title: "They're full of dead men in there!"; title: Closing in; title: Epilogues and aftermaths; title: Select bibliography; title: About the author.