@george-k said in The Chicago Way?:
City Hall and the gangs.
https://www.jacksonville.com/article/20110131/NEWS/801258184
We have all seen the statue of Butch O'Hare (at the airport). In one day he destroyed five enemy aircraft and, for that, became the Navy’s first ace of World War II and the first naval aviator to win the Medal of Honor.
Easy Eddie, was Al Capone’s lawyer
“One day, Easy Eddie decided to rectify wrongs he had done. He decided he would testify against the mob and Capone, clean up his tarnished name and offer his son some semblance of integrity.
“So he testified. In 1932, Capone was sentenced to 11 years in prison. In 1939, Easy Eddie was gunned down on a lonely Chicago street. Most people credited Capone’s people for the hit.
Butch O’Hare was Easy Eddie’s son.
Chicago criminal connections have some strange twists