Gem of the Prairie
Title | Gem of the Prairie PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert Asbury |
Publisher | |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 1940 |
Genre | Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN |
The Chicago Underworld
Title | The Chicago Underworld PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert Asbury |
Publisher | |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 1940 |
Genre | Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN |
The Gangs of New York
Title | The Gangs of New York PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert Asbury |
Publisher | |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Crime |
ISBN |
Organized Crime in Chicago
Title | Organized Crime in Chicago PDF eBook |
Author | Robert M. Lombardo |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2012-12-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0252094484 |
This book provides a comprehensive sociological explanation for the emergence and continuation of organized crime in Chicago. Tracing the roots of political corruption that afforded protection to gambling, prostitution, and other vice activity in Chicago and other large American cities, Robert M. Lombardo challenges the dominant belief that organized crime in America descended directly from the Sicilian Mafia. According to this widespread "alien conspiracy" theory, organized crime evolved in a linear fashion beginning with the Mafia in Sicily, emerging in the form of the Black Hand in America's immigrant colonies, and culminating in the development of the Cosa Nostra in America's urban centers. Looking beyond this Mafia paradigm, this volume argues that the development of organized crime in Chicago and other large American cities was rooted in the social structure of American society. Specifically, Lombardo ties organized crime to the emergence of machine politics in America's urban centers. From nineteenth-century vice syndicates to the modern-day Outfit, Chicago's criminal underworld could not have existed without the blessing of those who controlled municipal, county, and state government. These practices were not imported from Sicily, Lombardo contends, but were bred in the socially disorganized slums of America where elected officials routinely franchised vice and crime in exchange for money and votes. This book also traces the history of the African-American community's participation in traditional organized crime in Chicago and offers new perspectives on the organizational structure of the Chicago Outfit, the traditional organized crime group in Chicago.
Gem of the Prairie, an Informal History of the Ch
Title | Gem of the Prairie, an Informal History of the Ch PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert Asbury |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1940 |
Genre | Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN |
Midwest Gem, Fossil, and Mineral Trails, Great Lakes States
Title | Midwest Gem, Fossil, and Mineral Trails, Great Lakes States PDF eBook |
Author | June Culp Zeitner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN |
The Gangs Of Chicago
Title | The Gangs Of Chicago PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert Asbury |
Publisher | Pickle Partners Publishing |
Pages | 405 |
Release | 2016-07-26 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 1786259680 |
This classic history of crime tells how Chicago’s underworld earned-and kept-its reputation. Recounting the lives of such notorious denizens as the original Mickey Finn, the mass murderer H. H. Holmes, and the three Car Barn Bandits, Asbury reveals life as it was lived in the criminal districts of the Levee, Hell’s Half-Acre, the Bad Lands, Little Cheyenne, Custom House Place, and the Black Hole. His description of Chicago’s infamous red light district-where the brothels boasted opulence unheard of before or since-vividly captures the wicked splendor that was Chicago. The Gangs of Chicago spans from the time “Slab Town” was settled to Prohibition days. The story of Chicago’s golden age of crime climaxes with a dramatic account of the careers of the “biggest of the Big Shots”: Big Jim Colosimo, Terrible Johnny Torrio, and the elusive Al Capone.