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Tecumsehsbones said:
Chicago? You've never been there, have you? It's about as elite as Halifax.
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Oh, maybe 100 combined visits and deliveries.
I drank in a biker bar there one Friday after a fuel injector on my truck shit the bed.
Something changed. Did they start giving away free stuff free for elitists?
 
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My dad worked for Admiral in Chicago and liked to hang out at the Sportsman's Bar - best pizza! - which was on Clark.. Drive I think, the entrance to Lincoln Park Zoo was one block east, but immediately across the road from the bar was the site of The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre where Al Capone drew his last breath.
Not sure if the bar still exists. Maybe I'll take a Google Street View hike and have a look...
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
Sounds good, except for the Capone part. Capone went to prison, and when he got out, retired to Florida, where he died of syphilis in '47.
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Thank you for the correction. And I don't know why I didn't remember that because I had just recently watched a movie about it. It was one of his lieutenants or whatever that they killed, I guess hoping to get him?
 
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55Mercury said:
Thank you for the correction. And I don't know why I didn't remember that because I had just recently watched a movie about it. It was one of his lieutenants or whatever that they killed, I guess hoping to get him?
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The two-paragraph Wikipedia summary is. . .

The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang on Saint Valentine's Day 1929. The men were gathered at a Lincoln Park, Chicago, garage on the morning of February 14, 1929. They were lined up against a wall and shot by four unknown assailants, two of whom were disguised as police officers.

The murders resulted from the competition for control of organized crime in the city during Prohibition between the largely Irish North Siders, headed by George "Bugs" Moran, and their largely Italian Chicago Outfit rivals led by Al Capone. The perpetrators have never been conclusively identified, but former members of the Egan's Rats gang working for Capone are suspected of involvement; others have said that members of the Chicago Police Department who allegedly wanted revenge for the killing of a police officer's son played a part.
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The legend's a lot more interesting than the reality. That's usually true.
 
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