Crime in Chicago

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    Beer Wars

    where gangs fought over territory so they could illegally sell their beer
  • Attack on Capone

    Vigilante citizens raids took place in Cicero, IL, against Capone's whorehouses and gambling dens. (no official date given besides year)
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    Alcapone killed many rival leaders

    Al Capone and his crew attempted to kill Myles O'Donnell and William "Klondike" O'Donnell, leaders of the Westside O'Donnell Mob, in Cicero.
  • O'Connor's Gunners

    O'Conners gunners were created to try and stop all the crime in Chicago
  • St. Valentine's Day Massacre

    Four unidentified men, dressed as Chicago police officers, stormed into a Near North Side garage, S-M-C Cartage Co., at 2122 N. Clark Street, and murdered members of George Bugs Moran's North Side Gang and two gangster groupies, but missed killing Moran, who was not around when the killings happened. Known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the attack effectively ended the five-year gang war between Al Capone and the North Side Gang, which presumably started some years ago, when one-time North
  • Al Capone Arrested

    Al Capone aressted in Florida with men
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    Taxi Wars

    The Taxi wars started and continued throughout the decade where rival gangs threw dynamite into each others cars