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The drug became popular in the US first on the disco/club scene of the 1970s, where dancers used the drug for the "rush" it provides, and because it was perceived to enhance the experience of dancing to loud, bass-heavy disco. The drug became popular again in the mid-1980s and 1990s rave and EDM scenes. As with disco clubgoers, rave ...
In July 1980, CPD arrested 46 on charges of selling drugs at several locations, including Potomac and Rockwell. At the time, it was the "largest roundup of suspected drug peddlers in the city`s history". [7] Between 1985 and 1986, Chicago police pursued an undercover narcotics investigation of the street corner, coined "Operation Pot-Rock". [7]
The first gangs in Chicago were loosely organized groups of European immigrants in the late 1800s. In 1910, Big Jim Colosimo founded the Chicago Outfit on the South Side. In the early 1950s, immigration to Chicago had picked up considerably, namely to the west side and parts of the south side with many coming from Puerto Rico.
The Chicago Outfit (also known as the Outfit, the Chicago Mafia, the Chicago Mob, the Chicago crime family, the South Side Gang or the Organization) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Chicago, Illinois, which originated in the city's South Side in 1910. The organization is part of the larger Italian-American Mafia.
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One instance of their split and later animosity was a drug dealing dispute in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, which escalated into a shooting that killed several people. [22] By early 1993, Hoover claimed to have renounced his violent criminal past and became an urban political celebrity in Chicago.
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