Bibliograph

Gangland Chicago, criminality and lawlessness in the Windy City, 1837-1990, Richard C. Lindberg

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Gangland Chicago, criminality and lawlessness in the Windy City, 1837-1990, Richard C. Lindberg

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-350) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Gangland Chicago

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

910475448

Responsibility statement

Richard C. Lindberg

Sub title

criminality and lawlessness in the Windy City, 1837-1990

Summary

"Gangland Chicago is a revealing look at the Chicago underworld of yesterday and today. This comprehensive volume is sure to entertain and inform any reader interested in the evolution of organized crime and gangs in America's most representative city of the American Heartland,"--Amazon.com

Table Of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 Outlawry and the Rise of a Criminal Class in the Emerging City -- 2 Downtown and Near South: Victorian Vice, Gamblers, Card Cheats, Chinese Tongs, and the Rise of Chicago's Organized Crime Gangs, 1870-1920 -- 3 Gangs of the South Side: Politics, Patronage, and Bare-Knuckle Boyos, 1860-1930 -- 4 Maxwell Street, the West Side Terror District, 1860-1930 -- 5 The Gold Coast and the Gangs: North Side Affluence, Little Hell, and Gang Crime, 1860-1930 -- 6 The Gangs of Prohibition-Era Chicago -- 7 Schools for Crime -- 8 Gangs Becoming Nations, 1950-1989 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

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