Paul Durica
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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But then he's willing to kind of enter into alliances with figures like O'Banion just to kind of like maintain the peace.
And then again is on the West side and others.
Yeah.
And it's not really until, as I said, like, 24 that things start to go south.
And then Capone's much more ruthless.
So, you know, if Torrio's somebody who kind of builds his influence through alliances and sharing resources, Capone is much more likely to kind of just impose his will and, like, find different ways to, like, force out people he doesn't like to take over their territory.
There's a guy in the north side named Roger Toohey.
who's like running things on the far, far north side above the city.
And, you know, Capone, a lot of people think Capone was basically involved in like framing this guy for a crime he didn't commit, to get him thrown into the penitentiary so Capone could like kind of absorb his operations.
And it's like tactics like that that you see until eventually it's basically the south side gang controlling the majority of what's going on in Chicago.
Yeah, and a lot of those operations or those crimes predate prohibition.
But what's interesting is like prohibition really kind of gives criminal outfits resources that they never had before.
And so then everything just kind of gets taken to the next level.
So, I mean, that's basically what they were doing prior to prohibition is things like prostitution, labor racketeering.
gambling, things like that.
But they're able to make so much money and gain so much political influence and get so much protection from the police around bootlegging that it extends to their other operations.
And then, you know, after repeal in 1933, they have to kind of like shift back to some of that work, I guess you want to call it, because they don't have the lucrative benefits of selling illegal booze anymore.
And then Capone, you know, it's perfect, right?
He gets taken down for tax evasion, of all things, because he's making so much money but not reporting it.
And then after him, you know, it passes through a couple other hands, like Frank Nitti and a guy named Paul Rica are kind of the two immediate successors.
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