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The operative word in the title of this stunning book of photographs is
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The city of Chicago was incorporated March 4, 1837, and quickly grew to be the largest city incorporated that century. With the completion of the Illinois and Michigan canal, Chicago's real growth began. It is thought that Chicago's position on the map; as a last stop for many bachelors headed west to find fortunes added to the criminal activity that made Chicago a city of crime. Adding to the reputation is perhaps the most famous citizen of Chicago Al Capone. A man known for his grasp on organized crime, Capone is often single-handedly credited with the collapse of law during Prohibition. However, Capone was not alone. The pages of this beautiful coffee table book include photographs of many of Chicago's worst gangsters, thugs, and all-around street rats. A must-have for anyone who loves a good mob classic!
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Historic Photos of Chicago Crime: The Capone Era opens with a compelling look at Chicago's cityscape to include a broad range of cultural phenomena, from suffrage to jazz, essential to the contextualization of crime in the 1920s and 1930s.--The Chicago Syndicate, thechicagosyndicate.com
The history then proceeds as its title suggests, to a riveting overview of crime in Chicago, chock-full of images documenting notorious gangsters and gruesome gangland wars.
Al Capone, John Torrio, EarlHymieWeiss, GeorgeBugsMoran, and a host of others are all here. Replete with insightful captions and penetrating chapter introductions by historian John Russick, these photos offer a unique view into Chicago and its nefarious past.
The operative word in the title of this stunning book of photographs is
era. The emphasis is on the milieu of Chicago in gangland days. As such, there is something for everyone in this 200-page coffee table quality book. Of course, there are the requisite bloody cadavers, gun toting hoodlums and getaway cars, with the courtroom shots, the funerals, and beer busts. But the top-notch photographs taken with the big old press cameras of the period reproduce details that bring the 1920s and '30s to life everything from the pens on a desk, cigar bands, facial expressions in a crowd. We take for granted this kind of depth of field with today's high-quality digital cameras; but it is remarkable that the average news photographer was able to get these crisp pictures 80 years ago...If the economy and gas prices are keeping you close to home for vacation this summer, journey to another era through this book. You might want to purchase a spare to hold-over for a holiday gift to shorten someone's Chicago winter. --Windy City Times
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The city of Chicago was incorporated March 4, 1837, and quickly grew to be the largest city incorporated that century. With the completion of the Illinois and Michigan canal, Chicago's real growth began. It is thought that Chicago's position on the map; as a last stop for many bachelors headed west to find fortunes added to the criminal activity that made Chicago a city of crime. Adding to the reputation is perhaps the most famous citizen of Chicago Al Capone. A man known for his grasp on organized crime, Capone is often single-handedly credited with the collapse of law during Prohibition. However, Capone was not alone. The pages of this beautiful coffee table book include photographs of many of Chicago's worst gangsters, thugs, and all-around street rats. A must-have for anyone who loves a good mob classic!
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