With a selection of fine historic images from his best-selling
book Historic Photos of Chicago Crime: The Capone
Era, John Russick provides a valuable and revealing
historical retrospective on Chicago’s gangster era. Perhaps no
city has a more fabled past than Chicago, home of legendary Al
Capone. But that fabled past is often portrayed separate from the
surrounding web of social realities, without which no event, no
period in time can be understood. Remembering Chicago: Crime
in the Capone Era addresses this problem by opening 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 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, Earl "Hymie”
Weiss, George "Bugs” Moran, and a host of others are all here.
Complete with insightful captions by historian John Russick, these
photos offer a unique view into Chicago and its nefarious past.
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