Paul Durica
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288 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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The Germans and the Irish were two of the biggest ethnic
blocks and in Chicago.
And so when you look at the, the North side gang, they weren't just like the Irish gang, but it against the Italian gang on the South side.
In fact, they were kind of coming from all the different communities that made up the city.
And some of them had been, you know, their families have been in the U S for a long time.
And some of them were recent.
And even when you look at the South side gang and Capone, uh,
it wasn't like he just associates strictly with fellow Italians.
There was like a, you know, a lot of different people who were his associates as well.
So I think it's really kind of like, I mean,
Definitely Chicago was a city of immigrants, and you had a lot of people who were first-generation immigrants who found their way into some of these gangs.
But it's, I think, largely kind of pop culture that sort of helps to sort of shape our impressions of this era.
And then also because, as I said, figures like Capone become so much larger than life that they become sort of like the sort of stand-in for the archetypal gangster culture.
That's correct.
Yeah.
And I would say, you know, the real sort of architect...
of organized crime in Chicago is John Torrio.
And people know Capone, but Torrio was the one who very early on realized there was a lot of money to be made in bootlegging.
And there was no real point in like wasting time fighting among one another.
And so he really begins to create like what you could call a sort of corporate structure and kind of builds out the gang.
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