Word: gangdom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Year's eve while holding up a roadhouse, Rico found it necessary to kill a police officer. In the subsequent rise and fall of Rico in Chicago gangdom, this murder played the part of Fate in a Greek tragedy...
...Russell, who lately staged a spectacular round-up of the Chicago underworld-and then released his catch-professed great fury. "It's a war to the finish!" he cried. "I've never known a challenge like this. . . . We're going to make this the knell of gangdom in Chicago." Between Chicago's police and the Federal agents assigned to make Chicago dry, exists a state of feeling not unlike the inter-gang hatreds of the underworld. Assistant U. S. Prohibition Administrator Fred D. Silloway was quick to make capital of the Clark Street scene, with...