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BL
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| Record Number
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581927
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b411146
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| Main Entry
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Lombardo, Robert M
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| Title & Author
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Organized crime in Chicago : : beyond the Mafia /\ Robert M. Lombardo
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| Publication Statement
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Urbana :: University of Illinois Press,, c2013
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| Page. NO
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xv, 257 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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9780252037306 (cloth)
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: 0252037308 (cloth)
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: 9780252078781 (pbk.)
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: 0252078780 (pbk.)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-245) and index
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| Contents
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Preface -- Introduction -- Explaining organized crime -- The gem of the prairie -- The black Mafia -- The syndicate -- The Forty-two Gang -- The outfit -- The outfit as a complex organization -- Street crew neighborhoods -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
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| Abstract
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Lombardo provides a comprehensive sociological explanation for the emergence and continuation of organized crime in Chicago. Tracing the roots of political corruption that afforded protection to gambling, prostitution, and other vice activity in Chicago, he challenges the dominant belief that organized crime in America descends directly from the Sicilian Mafia
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| Subject
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Organized crime-- Illinois-- Chicago
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Criminals-- Illinois-- Chicago
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Gangs-- Illinois-- Chicago
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| Dewey Classification
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364.10609773/11
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| LC Classification
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HV6795.C4L58 2012
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