The Chicago Way?

[Jolly]

Lawsuits?

https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-gun-violence-mayor-lori-lightfoot-bloodshed-gangs

[George K]

an effort to sue local gangs as a way to curb rampant gun violence, according to a local affiliate report

What are you drinking?

Can I have some?

[Mik]

Sure. That’ll work.

[Horace]

These Chicago street gangs, against their lawyers' advice, often choose to incorporate, for the tax advantages. That is exactly why they will be susceptible to this. Good on Lori Lightfoot for thinking outside the box.

[George K]

A few years ago, a Chicago magazine (and I can't remember which) had a long expose' about how city hall is cooperating with gangs to reduce certain crimes while ignoring others (wink, wink).

This story is kind of surprising, because I wonder if it'll undermine the off-the-books relationship between City Hall and the gangs.

[Copper]

@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