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Michael Kenna (August 20, 1857 — October 9, 1946), American ....
Long before Prohibition ever rolled around, there were hoodlums in Chicago. Certainly other cities like New York and New Orleans have had their share of hoodlums and gangsters, but Chicago became famous for its colorful gangland characters.
Chicago had bootleggers as far back as the 1600s.
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Pierre Moreau, also known as “the Mole,” was selling firewater to the Indians while the Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette was preaching the gospel.
In the late 1800s, the first threads of an organized crime network in Chicago were established by Michael Cassius McDonald.
McDonald, a prominent Chicago gambler, created a system in which all gambling establishments and brothels had to pay him a tribute in order to continue operating without police interference. McDonald’s syndicate was a tremendous success and made a lot of money, which in turn made him a very influential figure in Chicago Democratic party politics.
It got to the point that if a candidate wanted to win the Democ