Chicago

Al, his wife, and son all moved down to Chicago in 1919. Where Al meets Johnny Torrio. They both worked for Big Jim. When the prohibition started Torrio saw dollar signs, but Big Jim already had enough money he didn’t want another outlet. So the only thing standing in Torrio's way was Big Jim. Torrio had Al "take care" of Big Jim. Al hired Frankie Yale to kill Big Jim. Torrio was the leader of Chicago and Al was his right hand man. 5 Al began to gain a reputation and a

The Devil In The White City: Entry 3 For part III of The Devil In The White City, Holmes begins to accept customers into his hotel, and at times declines some men trying to get a room, saying that he was out of vacancies for them, leaving more room for young women to check in. This of course made Minnie only jealous as Holmes effortlessly made them swoon. But the fair is full of wonders, from the first zipper to the United States made completely out of pickles, the fair had it all. Visitors flocked

her. They visited well known Toynbee Hall in London. The purpose of Toynbee Hall was to reduce urban problems such as poverty. This visitation inspired them to create one settlement house in Chicago. In short term their dream became true. In 1889 they opened Hull House in the neighborhood of slums in Chicago. Hull House provided services for the poor immigrants in that

Al Capone’s attempt to murder leader of the Chicago gang, George (bugs) Moran-Dean O’ Banion yesterday in February 14th, 1929 was a failure after Al Capone had come to the realization that Moran was not yet in the garage where Al Capone had thought that Moran was in. Although, Moran was not killed Al Capone’s four men that were sent to kill and murder Moran successfully killed seven members of his northern Chicago gang, also, known as one of the most brutal massacres in the city’s underworld.

swelled by nearly 50 percent. The increase was especially large in major cities; Baltimore’s homicide rate doubled, New Orleans’s and Chicago’s tripled, and Cleveland’s quadrupled. During the first half of the 1920s alone, lethal violence doubled in Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, and Rochester, New York” (Adler 36). The Road by Cormac McCarthy demonstrates the aftermath of violence and the violence that is continued in order to maintain life. The Road moves the reader through the story of a father walking

One of the most famous Alcatraz inmates was Alphonse “Al” Capone. He was born in 1899 into a wealthy family, who has emigrated to New York City six years before Alphonse was born. They immigrated during the United States’ Panic of 1983, but the Capone family did not suffer because Al’s father, Gabriel, was a very educated barber. After a couple years of working to save up enough money, Gabriel Capone opened his own barbershop in a Park Avenue tenement, which kept his family financially stable during

Being brought to Chicago she was hired to do an all jazz show to directly compete with WYNER's rivals WCFL and their popular overnight DJ Sid McCoy. For years it was many nights of who had the better songs, and which jockey had better beats. Although the competition soon

Robert E. Park, the founder of the Chicago School, was a journalist in Germany, with Georg Simmel, who linked his interest in journalistic knowledge with a study of urban sociology. Simmel emphasized the city as a state of mind rather than a physical environment. Simmel raises the idea in his influential essay, that the city values rationality more than emotionality (the head rather than the heart) and also emphasizes the importance of the money economy, impersonality, and punctuality. Park saw

In 1975, Chicago became a Broadway hit due to the work of Bob Fosse, John Kander and Fred Ebb. Ebb created the lyrics and also worked with Fosse to write the book, while Kander created the music. Chicago portrays a theme that celebrity statuses corrupt judicial system. The idea of celebrity criminals appears throughout the musical as the girls fight for attention in press in order to help win their trial. Mamma Morton clearly says (33 minutes into the movie) “Murder is a form of entertainment here”

One of the most effective reform techniques is to “investigate, educate, legislate, enforce” (Fee/Brown, 2). This straightforward manner of rectification was summarized and utilized by Florence Kelley during the Progressive Era in the United States. During a period where women lacked suffrage, and most didn’t have steady jobs, Kelley was the head of the National Consumer’s League and had a resume that boasted affiliation with various other esteemed organizations (Verba, 1). She epitomized independence