Organized crime in Chicago : beyond the Mafia /

Organized crime in Chicago : beyond the Mafia /

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Author / Creator:	Lombardo, Robert M.
Imprint:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2013.
Description:	xv, 257 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Organized crime -- Illinois -- Chicago. Criminals -- Illinois -- Chicago. Gangs -- Illinois -- Chicago. Criminals. Gangs. Organized crime. Illinois -- Chicago.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8947173

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ISBN:	9780252037306 (cloth) 0252037308 (cloth) 9780252078781 (pbk.) 0252078780 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-245) and index.
Summary:	Lombardo provides a comprehensive sociological explanation for the emergence and continuation of organized crime in Chicago. Tracing the roots of political corruption that afforded protection to gambling, prostitution, and other vice activity in Chicago, he challenges the dominant belief that organized crime in America descends directly from the Sicilian Mafia.

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