Once before, Chicagoans came together to fight gangsters. Prohibition-era gangs had the city in their pocket. Police, aldermen, and even the mayor — Big Bill Thompson — did the bidding of the gangsters. The myth that Eliot Ness came to town and cleaned up the city is hardly accurate, but the methods used to fight and defeat the gangsters aren’t a myth. The city’s elites came together and, along with some courageous prosecutors, eventually got the worst of the gangsters off the streets and sent them to prison.
Used to be one of my favorite cities.
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