How Did Prohibition Influence Organized Crime

This investigation will explore the question: To what extent did prohibition influence the organized crime bomb of the 1920’s through the 1930's in Chicago, Illinois? The research will mainly be focused between the 1920’s to 1933 to accurately analyses the role Prohibition had on organized crime throughout its duration. However, there will be further development into how Prohibition and the organized crime associated with it further shaped crime in the proceeding years.
Edward Sullivan’s, Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime originally published in 1929, will be the first source analyzed and evaluated. Through Sullivan's aggression as a reporter in Chicago’s Herald Examiner, the extensive research and notes further solidify the credibility in this book and the many others Sullivan has published over the topics of organized crime, prohibition, and Chicago crime. Quinsidentaly, Sullivan's location and date of where and when the book was publicized plays a crucial role in the validity of this source. The first-hand experience and personal encounters with the topics described allow for a much more accurate account of Chicago's organized crime as compared to a historian in a different setting. Although this insight is strong in the source, …show more content…
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