Organized Crime in Chicago: Beyond the Mafia

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organized crime in chicago organized crime in chicago Beyond the Mafia roBerT m. LomBardo UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield © 2013 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 c p 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ This book is printed on acid-free paper. Segments of this book originally appeared in the following edited volume and journals and are used here with permission: “The Organized Crime Neighborhoods of Chicago,” in Handbook of Organized Crime in the United States, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, reprinted courtesy ABC-CLIO Inc.; “The Social Organization of Organized Crime in Chicago,” in the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 10, 4 (Dec), reprinted courtesy of SAGE Publications Inc.; “The Black Mafia: African-American Organized Crime in Chicago, 1890–1960,” in Crime, Law and Social Change, volume 38 (2002), 1, 33–65, reprinted courtesy of Kluwer Academic Publishers – Dordrecht; and “The Forty-Two Gang: The Unpublished Landesco Manuscripts,” in the Journal of Gang Research, volume 18–1 Fall 2010, pages 19–38, reprinted courtesy of the National Gang Crime Research Center. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lombardo, Robert M. Organized crime in Chicago : beyond the Mafia / Robert M. Lombardo. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-252-03730-6 (cloth) — isbn 978-0-252-07878-1 (pbk.) 1. Organized crime—Illinois—Chicago. 2. Criminals—Illinois—Chicago. 3. Gangs—Illinois—Chicago. I. Title. hv6795.c4l58 2012 364.10609773'11—dc23 2012017778 To Lynda, Tom, and Mike The view that a secret criminal brotherhood was transplanted to urban America at the end of the nineteenth century produced a formula that lazy, ill-informed journalists would regularly turn to when writing about organized crime that effectively absolved the United States from any responsibility for its drug and crime problems. —Michael Woodiwiss, Gangster Capitalism ...