Three Cicero residents, Anton Krupicka, from left, Lewis Scheider and Emil Scheider, guard a Democrat candidate’s headquarters against mobsters during the 1924 election in Cicero. The headquarters had been shot up earlier in the day. , director of exhibitions for the Chicago History Museum, discovered as he continues to wade daily through pages of the Chicago Tribune from 1924.
Capone brothers Al and Frank set their eyes on Cicero with a desire to build gambling houses and speakeasies. There was just one problem — city officials needed to be shaken up in order to abide with these plans.in 1924, the Capones beat, kidnapped and intimidated voters who were planning on casting ballots for anti-Capone candidates. Things got so bad in Cicero that Chicago police were summoned to restore order to the community.
She sat with the body for hours as her phonograph wailed the jazzy tune “Hula Lou” repeatedly. Ironically, the first phone call Annan made was to her husband: “I’ve shot a man, Albert. He tried to make love to me.”Another young woman named Maurine Dallas Watkins reported Annan’s expedited travails through Cook County’s legal system — from inquest to trial — for the Tribune.
Small, a Kankakee farmer, former state senator and two-time former state treasurer, was elected governor in 1920. Just seven months after taking office, he was indicted on charges of embezzling millions of dollars while treasurer but. Over the next few years, eight of the jurors who acquitted Small ended up with state jobs. Other people associated with the case also landed on public payrolls, including the presiding judge’s brothers.
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