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The city of Chicago, IL was a violent and corrupt place in the 1930s. It was the midst of the Great Depression and organized crime bosses like Al Capone wielded much power.
Unemployment was much higher for the poor in 1930s Chicago. Those in white collar jobs lost many positions, but there was simply no work for the laborers to do.
Laborers servants and prostitutes.
Hopefully, not too long!
Elliot Ness was an American Prohibition agent. He is famous for his efforts of enforcing prohibition in Chicago in the 1930s.
Al Capone was a notorious gangster in Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s. He was involved in various criminal activities, including bootlegging, gambling, and murder, and was eventually arrested and convicted on charges of tax evasion. He was one of the most infamous figures of the Prohibition era.
Bob Allman. He went to Michigan St before playing for the Bears.
John Porter thrived as Klan leader and became mayor of Los Angeles in 1928.
You can find old newspaper articles from the Los Angeles Times newspaper from the 1930s in libraries, archives, or online databases that specialize in historical newspapers. Many libraries have microfilm or digital archives of old newspapers, or you can check websites like ProQuest Historical Newspapers or Newspapers.com for access to digitized archives.
He got his start in the early 1930s as a radio announcer of the play by play of Chicago Cubs games.
The American government began a system of paved highways in the 1930s. The Interstate Highway System was started in the 1950s and finally completed in the 1990s. These were huge improvements.
Some baseball teams of the 1950's are the Boston Redsocks, the New York Yankees, and the Detroit Tigers. Some football teams were the Baltimore Colts, the Los Angeles Rams, and the Chicago Bears.