Alcohol is smuggled from Canada across the Great Lakes and eventually into cities. Nightclubs are overcrowded with pleasure-addicted and wild people wanting fun and alcohol. For the general populace, drinking becomes a harmless crime, mixing some excitement with their alcohol.

The benefits and pleasures of alcohol are deeply ingrained in the culture few Americans give up drinking. For gangs, it is a gift of immense proportions. Since 1920, Prohibition is the law of the land across America. The political system already in place in Chicago is an easy environment for the gangsters to thrive. The bosses benefit the most from these enormous profits, but much is invested into the bribery of town councilmen and policemen. Their illegal profits are invested into legal businesses such as bars, taverns, nightclubs, and even into furniture businesses and hairdressing salons. But their most lucrative operations involve liquor smuggling. The bosses, by extortion and force, control gambling and illegal horse bets, prostitution and armed robberies. With this deadly weapon, bosses are no longer dependent on trained snipers. The most convincing argument the gangster carries is the Thompson submachine gun (the “Tommy Gun”).

Anyone who speaks to the police is quickly eliminated. Even if a gangster is captured, locked up or tortured, the man keeps silent, for he knows: where there is no witness, there is no prosecution. All gangsters swear to the highest law, the law of silence - Omertà. The chauffeur at the lowest echelon drives the boss from one city district to the next. The Soldati (gunmen) do the gang’s dirty business. Under him is his right hand, the Consigliere (advisor), and then the Capos (captains). Their gangs are structured like an army, with the boss standing at the top. It is the peak of the powerful gangster bosses. The police watch but do little, either corrupted by the gangs or totally overwhelmed. Citizens are becoming accustomed to the sound of detonating bombs. People mysteriously disappear at the docks almost daily, never to be seen again. Chicago, 1930: rival gangster gangs struggle for supremacy throughout the city.

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