Onetime home port for Scarface Al Capone’s mob, Cicero, Ill. has become a U. S. household synonym for murder and vice. There fell Assistant State’s Attorney William McSwiggin under gangland bullets.
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Gang wars and Nazi terror shook winter 1925, from Capone’s Cicero shootings to Hugo Bettauer’s murder
Winter 1925 saw two eruptions of political and criminal violence, one in Chicago and one in Vienna. In Chicago, the war between rival gangs escalated after the Cicero power struggle and attacks on ...
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