Chicago Stories: Boss 2

Urbanization created many cities out of nothing and people from all over rushed to cities for the immense amount of opportunity available. However, living in these cities also created many bad things as well. As cities developed so did gangs and violence. Chicago was a city that gangs and violence were very prevalent in. Al Capone ran the city and even the politics of it. He not only killed people but also sold alcohol illegally during prohibition. In Boss, a short story in Chicago Stories, it explained, "On election day, three people were killed, several were kidnapped, many were beaten, and Capone's candidates won." Politics in Chicago were corrupt because of the organized crime that started. "Capone had no difficulty running his bootleg empire, which brought in millions of dollars a week, and the killing went on." Chicago became a city which was controlled by organized crime.