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Roaring 20s
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The Great Migration
About 1.5 million blacks from the south came north for better jobs and more equal rights. Chicago's black population doubled -
Brief Economic Recssion
The war brought an economic reecession. Local workers demamded higher pay and better working conditions. At one point there was about 250,000 Chicagoans on strike around 1919. -
Prohibition
Alcohol was banned in Chicago. You were not allowed to drink, produce, or sell alcohol because it was illegal. People like Al Capone saw that there was money to be made and that led to organized crime. Progressives thought it would imporove society. -
Prosperous 20s
Towns were growing and car registrations jumped from 90,000 in 1920 to more than 400,000 in 1929. There were better jobs more people and more construction and buildings that were going to be made. -
The Second KKK
The second Ku Klux Klan was more of a nativst movement. They were against the immigrants that were coming to America. They embraced 100 percent Americanism -
Beer Wars
Prohibition was banned and mobs controlled certain areas. By the mid-1920s the city was home to at least a dozen major bootlegging gangs. The gangs would pay off police officers. James "Big Jim" Colosimo was the first bootlegger and influenced others to do the same. -
Organized Crime and Al Capone
Al Capone was different because he would murder. He paid off judges, cops, and politicians like everyone else. Chicagoans would easily be able to get alcohol. The quickest way to get it was to ask a police officer and he would give directions.
