Al Capone and the 1933 World&#039;s Fair: The End of the Gangster Era in Chicago

William Elliott Hazelgrove

doi:10.5771/9781442272279

Summary

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

William Hazelgrove provides the exciting and sprawling history behind 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businessmen, dubbed The Secret Six, who beat Al Capone at his own game, ending the gangster era as prohibition was repealed.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 and then found financing in the worst economic times the country had ever experienced. The story of 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 murdered months before the fair opened by an assassin many said was hired by Al Capone.

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

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Copyright year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4422-7226-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4422-7227-9
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 262
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Forty Years Later No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
Chapter One. Chicago, May 27, 1933 No access Pages 1 - 1
Chapter Two. Valentine’s Day, 1929 No access Pages 2 - 11
Chapter Three. Chicago’s Second World’s Fair No access Pages 12 - 17
Chapter Four. WAMPAS Baby Star No access Pages 18 - 24
Chapter Five. Public Enemy Number One No access Pages 25 - 27
Chapter Six. The White City No access Pages 28 - 31
Chapter Seven. Bootlegging No access Pages 32 - 36
Chapter Eight. The Big Man No access Pages 37 - 43
Chapter Nine. The Big Fellah Comes Home No access Pages 44 - 49
Chapter Ten. The Perfect Storm No access Pages 50 - 54
Chapter Eleven. Financing a Fair No access Pages 55 - 62
Chapter Twelve. The Untouchables No access Pages 63 - 66
Chapter Thirteen. Birth of the Nymph No access Pages 67 - 72
Chapter Fourteen. Death in the Underground No access Pages 73 - 77
Chapter Fifteen. Breaking Ground No access Pages 78 - 83
Chapter Sixteen. The Secret Six No access Pages 84 - 88
Chapter Seventeen. The Modernists No access Pages 89 - 94
Chapter Eighteen. Lady Godiva No access Pages 95 - 99
Chapter Nineteen. Horatio Alger Returns No access Pages 100 - 104
Chapter Twenty. The Design No access Pages 105 - 109
Chapter Twenty-One. The Secret Six Get to Work No access Pages 110 - 113
Chapter Twenty-Two. Beginning to Build the Rainbow City No access Pages 114 - D
Chapter Twenty-Three. Gold Diggers No access Pages 119 - 122
Chapter Twenty-Four. Meeting Al Capone No access Pages 123 - 127
Chapter Twenty-Five. Water, Electric, and the Sky Ride No access Pages 128 - 130
Chapter Twenty-Six. One Hundred Thousand No access Pages 131 - 134
Chapter Twenty-Seven. The Depression Fair No access Pages 135 - 139
Chapter Twenty-Eight. Nymphs No access Pages 140 - 142
Chapter Twenty-Nine. Springtime in Chicago No access Pages 143 - 145
Chapter Thirty. The Sky Ride No access Pages 146 - 149
Chapter Thirty-One. The Trial of Al Capone No access Pages 150 - 152
Chapter Thirty-Two. Color and Light No access Pages 153 - 157
Chapter Thirty-Three. The Plea Bargain No access Pages 158 - 161
Chapter Thirty-Four. The Temple of Womanhood No access Pages 162 - 166
Chapter Thirty-Five. The Bad Plea Bargain No access Pages 167 - 170
Chapter Thirty-Six. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fair No access Pages 171 - 175
Chapter Thirty-Seven. Hayseeds No access Pages 176 - 178
Chapter Thirty-Eight. The Gaseous Tube No access Pages 179 - 182
Chapter Thirty-Nine. The Trial of Al Capone No access Pages 183 - 185
Chapter Forty. The Disposable Fair No access Pages 186 - 189
Chapter Forty-One. Verdict No access Pages 190 - 193
Chapter Forty-Two. Racing the Clock No access Pages 194 - 197
Chapter Forty-Three. Capone on Ice No access Pages 198 - 201
Chapter Forty-Four. Lady Godiva Again No access Pages 202 - 206
Chapter Forty-Five. Death of the Untouchables No access Pages 207 - 208
Chapter Forty-Six. A Day at the Fair No access Pages 209 - 212
Chapter Forty-Seven. Sex at the Fair No access Pages 213 - 216
Chapter Forty-Eight. A Century of Progress No access Pages 217 - 220
Chapter Forty-Nine. Rags to Riches No access Pages 221 - 224
Chapter Fifty. End of the Fair No access Pages 225 - 228
Epilogue No access Pages 229 - 232
Notes No access Pages 233 - 244
Bibliography No access Pages 245 - 248
Index No access Pages 249 - 260
About the Author No access Pages 261 - 262