Historic Photos of Chicago Crime: The Capone Era, John Russick, 2007.
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.
It 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.
Replete with insightful captions and penetrating chapter introductions by historian John Russick, these photos offer a unique view into Chicago and its nefarious past.
10" x 10", 216 pages, hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-59652-387-6, BH6515 / $39.95
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