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Al Capone’s name has become synonymous with Prohibition-era gang violence. Like many outlaws of the era, he is today romanticized as a mob legend, Capone’s actual climb to the top in 1920s Chicago was ...
Nowadays the country is facing the “enforcement crisis” and last week the Anti-Saloon League meeting in Chicago called its biennial convention by that name. It was a great meeting. To it came Bishop ...
Friday, January 17th, 2020 marks the 100 year anniversary of the beginning of the Prohibition era. Between 1920 and 1933, alcohol consumption in the United States was illegal. With prohibition, came ...
Dublin-based “Irish Blood” producers Deadpan Pictures and Canadian shingle Shaftesbury Films are teaming up again on “The Roaring Banshees,” an adaptation of the hit play by John Morton and Peter ...
The passage of Prohibition in 1919 unwittingly sparked one of the more violent decades in Illinois history. The liquor still flowed freely in much of Illinois, with bootlegging operations of various ...
Prohibition, making the sale of alcohol illegal, arrived in the United States with the speed of a comet, hung around for a decade, and disappeared like a rocket. In both cases — its arrival and its ...
Blind Barber (left) disguises itself behind a barber shop, but it’s actually one of West Loop’s most popular nightclubs; the Drifter (right) hosts 1920s-style performers below the historic Green Door ...