Word: joliet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started work under few illusions. The morning of his appointment, Chicago papers reported on a four-man gang that stole $1,000,000 in furs and jewelry from Gold Coast apartments. The robbers said that they operated with impunity-before the FBI caught them and got them sent to Joliet-by paying $20,000 a year to detectives on the city burglary squad. One dapper thief, spotted by a victim, was arrested and put through police lineup, but escaped identification because a friendly ($1,000) Chicago cop disguised him in a new hairdo and horn-rimmed glasses...