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Chicago Dly News 25 May q. in Illinois Association for Criminal Justice et al. Illinois Crime Survey 941: In the first ninety-three days of this year, 55 bombs were detonated in the spaghetti zone.at spaghetti zone (n.) under spaghetti, n.
Chicago Dly News 25 May q. in Illinois Association for Criminal Justice et al. Illinois Crime Survey 941: In the first ninety-three days of this year, 55 bombs were detonated in the spaghetti zone. Chi. Dly News 2 Aug. f.n. 2 in Illinois Crime Survey (1929) 862: It is their [i.e. two police sergeants] assignment to humor and protect any City Hall politician who might get unruly in the place, but to bounce a black-jack on the derby of any stranger who might complain about the service .at derby, n.
Chicago Dly News 20 June q. in Illinois Association for Criminal Justice et al. Illinois Crime Survey (1929) 902: ‘Two rival ‘mobs,’ which, besides owning and operating a majority of the places, have ‘muscled in’ on a forty per cent basis on nearly every independent operator of any significance.at muscle, v.
Chi. Dly News 2 Aug. f.n. 2 in Illinois Crime Survey (1929) 862: Cusick [...] is operating a disorderly hotel at 516 South Wabash Avenue. [...] Male ‘ropers’ on the street ballyhoo the place like a barker at a street carnival .at roper, n.2
Chicago Dly Jrnl 26 July q. in Illinois Association for Criminal Justice et al. Illinois Crime Survey 1053: ‘Him and Willis Jackson were the guys with the brains. They pulled some of the biggest robberies in Chicago’.at pull, v.
Illinois Crime Survey 1012: [f.n.4 A ‘banker’ takes in and pays out money; he must observe the game with a skilled eye in order to make fair payments of odds].at banker, n.
Illinois Crime Survey 862: [of a city mayor] [C]lose political associates of [Chicago] Mayor [William Hale] Thompson are busily denying the ‘big boss’ knows what’s going on.at big boss, the, n.
‘Organized Crime in Chicago’ in Illinois Association for Criminal Justice et al. Illinois Crime Survey 828: In the four months from January to April [1926], there had been twenty-nine killings ascribed by the police and newspapers to the booze war.at booze, n.
Illinois Crime Survey 1044: Among the children of the neighborhood no shame attached to stealing. ‘Copping’ was a part of their play life. Going ‘on a bum from school’ and pilfering went together.at on a/the bum under bum, n.4
‘The Municipal Court in Chicago’ in Illinois Association for Criminal Justice et al. Illinois Crime Survey 409: [A] proposition was made by certain officials in the city to a young lawyer and the assurance was given that the cases in which he was interested would not be vigorously prosecuted, provided he accepted the status [of a courtroom ‘regular"]. He was told that no ‘split’ was necessary but from time to time he would have to take care of the lock-up keeper and the bailiffs.at take care of, v.
Illinois Crime Survey 855: In January, 1917, a notebook containing the names of shady hotels and the rates of weekly graft was found in the pocket of Lieutenant White of the Lake Street station [...] There was [a] list headed, ‘Can be raided’; and this was taken to mean the places which had not ‘cashed in’.at cash in, v.
Illinois Crime Survey 861: [I]n October, 1925, raiders from headquarters cleaned out the Twenty-second Street district.at clean out, v.
Illinois Crime Survey 852: [A]n overlord of the First Ward Levee was ‘fixer’ in the new tenderloin and was settling with the people down town.at downtown, n.
Illinois Crime Survey 1055: [H]is gang, brothers of old acquaintances, noticed his shabby prison ‘dress-out’ suit and the misfit sweater vest, and invited him to come to their homes for a suit.at dress-out suit, n.
Illinois Crime Survey 859: [P]rofits of vice in Chicago amounted to $13,500,000 a year [...] The system by which ‘fixed’ police ‘tipped off’ resort keepers, and the police discriminations against unprotected resorts [...] was exposed.at fixed, adj.1
Illinois Crime Survey 965: Terrence Lyons, acting police lieutenant, head of a ‘flivver’ squad, was killed while trying to stop three men in an automobile.at flivver squad (n.) under flivver, n.
Illinois Crime Survey 1012: [f.n.2 A ‘frisker’ is an employee stationed at the entrance who examines patrons for concealed weapons].at frisker, n.
Illinois Crime Survey 914: It seems that pre-Volstead brewers, who remained in the business, had called these gangsters in to do their convoying and to ‘front’ [fn.1: Take the brunt of the law if discovered] for them in case of a ‘fall’.at front, v.2
Illinois Crime Survey 861: Disorderly houses around Twenty-second and State Streets were doing a good business. In one block it was reported that one hundred girls were employed.at girl, n.1
Illinois Crime Survey 867: Repeated exposés have always found him [i.e. ‘Chicago’s Gentleman Gambler’ Mont Tennes] in control of strings of handbooks and gambling houses in Chicago and other urban centers.at hand book (n.) under hand, n.1
Illinois Crime Survey 881: [Mont] Tennes had by this time [1911] developed an organization which operated avowedly only as a racing news distributing service and less openly as a handbook syndicate.at hand book (n.) under hand, n.1
Illinois Crime Survey 966: Murphy and Mader had been willing to ‘iron out’ the difficulties between the recalcitrant unions.at iron out (v.) under iron, v.
Illinois Crime Survey 861: In 1924 [...] [t]he ‘lid’ was kept on by Mayor Dever and Chief Collins and there were no important developments concerning vice.at lid, n.
Illinois Crime Survey 858: The [Chicago] Tribune’s south side investigation found among many other hotels and resorts the ‘Four Deuces’ on Wabash Avenue running on a large scale and wide open.at wide open, adv.
Illinois Crime Survey 912: [John] Torrio [...] was said to be worth millions. He boasted that he ‘owned’ police captains and other officials.at own, v.
Illinois Crime Survey 929: [f.n.1 Pineapple tossers descended on the Summerfield headquarters [...] An explosion resounded through the district and the Summerfield headquarters was in need of considerable repair].at pineapple, n.1
Illinois Crime Survey 1038: He [i.e. ‘Big Tim’ Murphy] had ‘beaten raps’ at memorable trials, typical for the spectacular failure of the law.at beat (a) rap (v.) under rap, n.1
Illinois Crime Survey 902: Capone [...] and a host of other gangsters [...] found that with such weapons as bombs, sawed-off shotguns, machine-guns, and the threat of being ‘taken for a ride,’ they need not confine themselves to the ‘beer racket’ .at take for a ride (v.) under ride, n.
(con. 1915) Illinois Crime Survey 890: [Mont] Tennes, in addition to his metropolitan gambling business, was conducting a large poolroom [...] at Bellewood, Illinois. The place was immune because the ‘boss was in right’.at right, adv.
Illinois Crime Survey 328: Richie Tucci [...] worked as a ‘shill’ in the poker room [...] Tucci’s job was to keep a game going whenever there were only two or three players at a poker table .at shill, n.2
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