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Roaring 20s Gangster Links

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a list of links regarding the 1920s most famous gangsters, bootleggers, rumrunners, drug peddlers, and labor racketeers.
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Chicago History Museum

Encyclopedia of Chicago: Gang Map

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the gang territories during the 1920s in Chicago. Shows where each of the gangs had a dominant presence.
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A&E Television

History.com: How Al Capone Spent His Time in Alcatraz

For Students 9th - 10th
Public Enemy #1 was transferred to the now-infamous island prison a few weeks after it opened. To Americans of the 1920s and '30s, he was the notorious gangster Scarface Al, Public Enemy No. 1. But when he arrived at Alcatraz in late...

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