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Al Capone and the 1933 World’s Fair: The End of the Gangster Era in Chicago

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Al Capone and the 1933 World’s Fair: The End of the Gangster Era in Chicago is a historical take a look at Chicago all through the darkest days of the Great Depression. The story of Chicago fighting the hold that organized crime had at the city in an effort to put on The 1933 World’s Fair.

William Hazelgrove provides the exciting and sprawling history in the back of the 1933 World’s Fair, the last of the golden age. He reveals the story of the six millionaire businessmen, dubbed The Secret Six, who beat Al Capone at his own game, ending the gangster era as prohibition was once repealed. The story of an intriguing woman, Sally Rand, who embodied the World’s Fair with her own rags to riches story and brought sex into the open. The story of Rufus and Charles Dawes who gave the fair a theme after which found financing within the worst economic times the country had ever experienced. The story of essentially the most corrupt mayor of Chicago, William Thompson, who owed his election to Al Capone; and the mayor who followed him, Anton Cermak, who was once murdered months before the fair opened by an assassin many said was once hired by Al Capone.

But most of all it’s the story about a city fighting for survival within the darkest of times; and a shining light of hope referred to as A Century of Progress.

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