Five Points Gang

“In 1923, when Chicago elected a reformist mayor who announced that he planned to rid the city of corruption, Torrio and Capone moved their base beyond the city limits to suburban Cicero”(History 9). But election issues followed them and their operations to Cicero. “To ensure they could continue doing business, Torrio and Capone initiated an intimidation effort on the day of the election, March 31, 1924, to guarantee their candidate would get elected(History 9). “Some voters were even shot and killed”(History 9). One year later, in 1925 ,Torrio retired. Capone became crime czar of Chicago, running gambling, prostitution, and bootlegging rackets and expanding his territories by the gunning down of rivals and rival gangs”(Biography 6). He felt Capone was more than capable of running the business they had created. “From there, Al began living a luxurious and public lifestyle, spending money lavishly, although always in cash to avoid a trial”(History 10). “Newspapers of the time estimated Capone’s operations generated $100 million in revenue annually”(History 10). ‘As his popularity grew with his business, so did his reputation for being brutally violent. In 1926, when two of Capone’s sworn enemies were spotted in Cicero, Capone ordered his men to gun them down”(History 12). “Unbeknownst to Capone, William McSwiggin, known as the ‘Hanging Prosecutor,’ who had tried to prosecute him for a previous murder, was…

Broadway, the Five Points. Yet, the versions of New York these writers present are vastly different. Some of these differences stem from the fact that Dickens is merely a visitor in New York, while Foster clearly knows the ins-and-outs of the city. The clearest demonstration of this is when Dickens and Foster guide their readers to the Five Points. When Dickens intends to stroll through the Five Points, he notes that “but it is needful, first, that we take as our escort these two heads of the…

them. More than 60% of the babies don’t survive their desertion. Mothers needed to do voluntary penance for their sin whenever they couldn’t afford to take care of their baby. A mother must come into Sister Irene’s Asylum and take care of her own and another baby until both were ready go challenge the world on their own. This has helped the death rate of the babies increase. From 11,000 babies only 19% died in the past year Jacob Riis visited the asylum. Some babies are taken care of by…

talks about landlords in chapter thirteen, “The Color Line in New York”. He compares them to the Czar of Russia and says that “the landlord deserves no credit,” (161). He does this in reference to the blatant biases against black Americans living in the tenements. Riis even includes a chart with the average monthly rates for both white tenement residents and black tenement residents. This chart claims that the rent for blacks was over 50% higher than it was for white renters. Showing this kind…

During the Civil War times, New York was full of many slums, including Five Points in Manhattan. It was full of gangs, crimes and several bars. It was full of many Irish immigrants trying to escape the Great Famine in Ireland. Five Points was considered one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in New York. This paper will tell you all about the neighborhood of Five Points. Five Points was completely made up of immigrants. Irish people came to escape the Great Famine, and many of them also lived…

Five Points is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan notoriously known for its gangs, crime, and poverty. This neighborhood was mostly recognized as an Irish neighborhood in the mid-1800s. The reputation of the Irish was that they were criminal by nature, and the horrible conditions of the Five Points helped affirm that reputation. Initially a reservoir in the 1700s, Collect Pond was located just north of today’s City Hall. This pond was the root of spring water for Dutch inhabitants of downtown…

joining gangs and partaking in violent behaviors. We see it in headlines often, but many of us don’t seem to think much of it. It’s not an issue that remains at the front of our minds, until we begin to realize that dozens of young people in our own communities are falling victim to these same consequences. Youth gang activity and violence have been a long standing problem in Denver’s Five Points community, and remains present in this area today. In fact, the number of reported violent gang…

each other besides the ending when the author calls the bully her sister. The poem is well plotted, and has a good introduction into getting onto the real topic of racism and stereotypes. “That day... which-had-to-be-named Elementary” (207). Let’s you know that there is an already influential white influence on the school. That the influence bothers, and influences work ethic on the minorities, makes them rebel, and feel unfairly treated because of their skin color. I think that since…

diagnostic ERCP changed into a more complex procedure, I asked Marc if we could switch roles so that he can assist the doctor without interruption, and I will look after the patient. He said “No” and decided to call the front desk for an extra nurse to come in to help. I did not think that taking away one nurse from her or his assignment for a non-urgent matter was appropriate. Therefore, I informed him that asking for an extra hand was not necessary. However, his response was that “Someone is…

with the author, it has been noticed that those teens are having a hard time while switching from a colloquial context to Standard English. I personally understand that this can happen; being that young, students are likely to adapt themselves with the ambiance they are. Nevertheless, I also believe that parents, the ones responsible for their children, could be administrating these students’ time on the social media and hence requiring of them a little more maturity on what they post.…