From the NS Archive: The Rackets of Chicago
From the NS Archive: The Rackets of Chicago 3 May 1930: Chicago cracks down on its gang crime By 1930, president Hoover’s mission to sort out Chicago’s gang problem — primarily that led by boss Al Capone — was beginning to pick up pace. Here, in May 1930, our anonymous correspondent outlines the state of organised crime (or racketeering, as it was known), something that had grown rapidly in the past few years. There were still 60 rackets at work in Chicago in 1930, each of which would attempt to monopolise a certain trade and offer illicit protection to its people. But the problem, o...
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