At the dawn of the Al Capone era, prosecutor William McSwiggin was killed in a hail of machine gun bullets outside a Cicero tavern
The McSwiggin murder was the kind of story that editors once thought sold newspapers. The Tribune laid out the initial facts in a front-page story on April 28, 1926: “William H. McSwiggin, youthful assistant state’s attorney, who was known as the ‘hanging prosecutor’ because of his success in the conduct of murder trials, was shot to death last night when a machine gunner in a curtained ...
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