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In the year 1871...
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...the Great Fire nearly
destroy Chicago.
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But out of he ashes of
that catastrophe...
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...rose a new Chicago.
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A city of brick and brawn...
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...concrete and guts...
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...with a short history
of violence...
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...beating in its pulse.
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That history is on the record...
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...and the record is kept
by the newspapermen...
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...who have made
Chicago's papers great.
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No period in Chicago's history...
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...was more violent than
the years of Prohibition.
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The rise and fall of
the bootlegging empires...
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...was written in blood
and bullets.
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In 1932...
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...there were 365 murders
committed in Chicago...
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...one for each day of the year.
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Eight policemen were shot down
in the line of duty.
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One of the most ruthless
of these murders...
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...occurred on
December 9th, 1932...
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...on South Ashland Avenue...
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...in a place operated
by a woman named...
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...Wanda Skutnik.
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Wanda Skutnik's store
in the Polish district...
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...was the front for a speakeasy.
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You got change for a twenty?
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That's all right. Pay me next time.
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Wanda, you're looking at a guy
that's coming down with a cold.
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Sit down.
Thanks.
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Hi.
Hi.