MARRIED TO THE MLLB
Sep 17, 2021
3 minutes
BY PAUL KENNEDY
Image courtesy Sheldon
Carpenter/Witherell’s Inc..
It was a typical Chicago February morning: gray skies, cold, with a light dusting of snow powdering the city’s sidewalks. But in a dreary garage at 2122 North Clark Street, in a quiet residential neighborhood on the city’s North Side, this Valentine’s Day in 1929 would be anything but ordinary.
The garage, rented by the George “Bugs” Moran gang, which controlled much of the North Side’s illegal booze traffic and ran most of its brothels and casinos, would be
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