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Gangland Chicago : criminality and lawlessness in the Windy City, 1837-1990
Title
Gangland Chicago : criminality and lawlessness in the Windy City, 1837-1990 / Richard C. Lindberg.
ISBN
9781442231955
1442231955
9781442231962
Publication
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
Physical Description
xviii, 373 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 15, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-350) and index.
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
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