Chicago is known for crime bosses like Al Capone, but the city is also home to two Chinese gangs that were once fierce rivals.
Chicago has a long history with organized crime. After all, it is the home of the infamous Al Capone. In our last episode, we went searching for how one Curious City listener’s grandfather fit into the city’s larger crime history. Chicago’s organized crime network was quite extensive and interconnected during the mid-century.
Newspapers covered these small-time criminals, sometimes for days because as historian Rich Lindberg put it, editors would not bother to send reporters to some neighborhoods…