A Booming Business
May, 1974
Chicago has been the underworld's bombing capital since before the turn of the century. In the city's Italian neighborhoods, Black Hand extortionists used bombs against shopkeepers and kidnapings against those whose wealth was not in the form of business property. In other neighborhoods, particularly the Irish, extortionists were also big on bombs but refined their threats from simple ultimatums to offers of "protection" (mainly against the protectors). In addition, bombs were the popu...
