# Chicago

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/regions/chicago/

The city and its suburbs as the filed records place them: newspaper pages from 1920 to 1930 that print a street, a building or a suburb, the two 1929 pages on the garage killings, and the Kefauver Committee's Illinois hearings.

This page is the city. The [Chicago Outfit](/families/chicago-outfit/) page is the organization, and the [Al Capone](/capone/) hub is one man’s file. Each record below stands on its own page with its citation and rights basis, and the places on the map come from those pages. Where a page prints no street number, the pin is the named building or the suburb, not an address.

Fourteen of the fifteen records are newspaper pages from Chronicling America, all published in 1930 or earlier. They are Associated Press, United Press and NEA copy as the papers printed it, so the descriptions of people and motives in them are the papers’ and the police’s own, not findings. They name, in the order of the dates:

- South Wabash Avenue, where a 1920 wire story places the shooting of James Colosimo at his cafe.
- Roosevelt Road at Fifty-Sixth Avenue, on the Chicago-Cicero line, where a 1926 wire story places the shooting of an assistant state’s attorney and two companions.
- The village of Forest View, just south of Cicero, in a May 1926 story that rests on a police captain’s statement.
- The Hawthorne Inn in Cicero, fired on in September 1926, and Holy Name Cathedral on North State Street, in front of which a machine gun was fired in October 1926.
- The Metropole Hotel at Michigan Boulevard and 23rd Street, in a July 1928 feature.
- The federal building and the suburb of Chicago Heights, in the March 1929 grand jury reports, and 7244 Prairie Avenue, printed in a June 1929 feature.
- The village of Stickney, in a December 1929 report of a prohibition raid.
- The Illinois Central subway under Michigan Avenue at Randolph Street, in a July 1930 report on the Lingle inquiry, and the Lexington Hotel on South Michigan Avenue, in a September 1930 item.

The two February 1929 pages are the Evening Star’s first-day report of 14 February on the garage killings, which prints the address 2122 North Clark Street, and its page 2 of 15 February. The Kefauver Committee’s Part 5 is the one non-newspaper record: the Senate hearings held in Illinois in 1950 and 1951. Its testimony on the South Side policy wheels is filed in the [Harlem numbers](/harlem/) section.
The two February 1929 pages are the Evening Star’s first-day report of 14 February on the garage killings, which prints the address 2122 North Clark Street, and its page 2 of 15 February. The Kefauver Committee’s Part 5 is the one non-newspaper record: the Senate hearings held in Illinois in 1950 and 1951.

The 1916 Landis inquiry into gambling by telephone, at which Mont Tennes was to be heard, the Annenberg and Ragen opinions, and Continental Press in the Part 5 testimony are filed on the [Gambling and the wire](/gambling/) page.
The [Hollywood extortion case](/hollywood/) files the 1948 habeas corpus petition of Campagna, De Lucia, D'Andrea and Gioe in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, with the 1947 parole records that preceded it.