The Boys in Chicago Heights

The Forgotten Crew of the Chicago Outfit

By: Matthew J. Luzi

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Chicago Heights was long the seat of one of the major street crews of the Chicago Outfit, but its importance has often been overlooked and misunderstood.

The crew's origins predate Prohibition, when Chicago Heights was a developing manufacturing center with a large Italian immigrant population. Its earliest bosses struggled for control until a violent gang war left the crew solidified under the auspices of Al Capone. For the remainder of the 20th century, the boys from Chicago Heights generated large streams of revenue for the Outfit through its vast gambling enterprises, union infiltration, and stolen auto rackets. For the first time, the history of the Chicago Heights street crew is traced from its inception through its last known boss.

©2012 Matthew J. Luzi (P)2022 Tantor

Highly Recommended

Sounds 100%. Highly recommended. Best to you, Matt!

*This review required seven more words, so now it's completed.

Excellent

Loved this book. Now I want to check out the physical book for dateline events

Book is all over the place and very confusing

The stories are like a quick Tarantino movie. It will be 1976 one minute then go back to 1918 then go back to 1950. It’s all over the place random stories and just not good stories, telling in my opinion