Al Capone and the 1933 World’s Fair: The End of the Gangster Era
in Chicago is a historical look at Chicago during the darkest days
of the Great Depression. The story of Chicago fighting the hold
that organized crime had on the city to be able to put on The 1933
World's Fair. William Hazelgrove provides the exciting and
sprawling history behind the 1933 World's Fair, the last of the
golden age. He reveals the story of the six millionaire
businessmen, dubbed The Secret Six, who beat Al Capone at his own
game, ending the gangster era as prohibition was repealed. The
story of an intriguing woman, Sally Rand, who embodied the World's
Fair with her own rags to riches story and brought sex into the
open. The story of Rufus and Charles Dawes who gave the fair a
theme and then found financing in the worst economic times the
country had ever experienced. The story of the most corrupt mayor
of Chicago, William Thompson, who owed his election to Al Capone;
and the mayor who followed him, Anton Cermak, who was murdered
months before the fair opened by an assassin many said was hired by
Al Capone. But most of all it’s the story about a city fighting
for survival in the darkest of times; and a shining light of hope
called A Century of Progress.
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