3/25/2023 0 Comments Chicago 1930![]() The 42 murders in January is nowhere near the most ever in a month, but even that figure is not from the rat-a-tat-tat years. That hasn't changed between then and now, as police today cite street gangs and drugs for the rise in killings. It was a bootlegging dispute between North and South Side mob gangs. In that single slaughter, seven people were lined up against a warehouse wall on North Clark Street and gunned down. With Friday's fatal gunshot attack on a vehicle on a Lake Shore Drive, February is starting as January left off.īut if the current murder rate continues, February 2013 will far exceed February 1929, when there were 26 killings, and that number includes the attack known around the world, the St. PHOTOS: Capone's revolver up for auction in London.The figures from January 2013 are significantly higher than the January of Al Capone's most famous year. January 2013's bloodshed has caught the attention of Chicagoans, politicians, the White House and people around the world.įorty-two people were killed in Chicago last month, the most in January since 2002, and far worse than the city's most notorious crime era at the end of the Roaring Twenties.Įven though the image of Chicago, perpetuated by Hollywood over the years, was that mobsters routinely mowed down people on the streets, the crime stats tell a different story. Forty-two people were killed in Chicago last month, the most in January since 2002, and far worse than the city's most notorious crime era at the end of the Roaring Twenties.Įven though the image of Chicago, perpetuated by Hollywood over the years, was that mobsters routinely mowed down people on the streets, the crime stats tell a different story. ![]() ![]() Valentine's Day Massacre, and last month, January 2013. Let's compare two months: January 1929, leading up to the St. It is unknown whether a copy of this full version still exists.Ī print is preserved in the Library of Congress collection Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation.The surprising stats show the city is worse off now in the category of murder than at the height of the era that has driven Chicago's reputation for almost a century, Capone's "gangland" Chicago. The complete musical film was released intact in countries outside the United States where a backlash against musicals never occurred. The film was advertised as a gangster picture, a genre which had become very popular with the public. ![]() These cuts accounts for the short length of the film. Due to the public's backlash against musicals late in 1930, all of the musical numbers were cut from the film to make it more marketable. When the police show up, Dominic realizes what Polly has done and uses her as a shield against the police but Swifty manages to save her and Dominic is forced to surrender to the police.Ī 62 minute version of the film survives and has been broadcast on television and cable. She leaves the phone off the hook while the police listen in on his confession. Polly eventually gets Dominic to confess that he shot her brother by pretending to be interested in him. Swifty begins to think of reforming due to Polly's influence. During a hold-up, Polly protects Swifty by shooting at a cop in the back. Swifty, however, is eventually persuaded by Polly and he promises not to tell Dominic the truth. Swifty eventually shows up and Polly is almost exposed as an imposter. Determined to find out who killed her brother, Polly poses as Swifty's widow and attempts to get a job at Dominic's nightclub. Jimmy assumes Swifty's identity and joins Dominic's gang but is quickly discovered to be an imposter and shot. Swifty jumps off the train near a bridge crossing and since no trace of him can be found the police believe him to be dead. Swifty is traveling to New York to work for Dominic, a notorious gangster who owns a nightclub. Two detectives, Finnegan and Jimmy, board a train in pursuit of a gangster, “swifty” Dorgan. Planned as a full-scale musical, the songs were cut from the film before release due to the public's aversion for musicals. It was released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Robinson, Neil Hamilton, and Frank McHugh. Cline and starring Alice White, Edward G. The Widow from Chicago is a 1930 American pre-Code crime drama film directed by Edward F.
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