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2. Hampton House (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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   Hampton House Entrance, October 2006. In 1979, the building was converted to the Hampton House Condominium. Harold Washington resided there while he served as an Illinois Congressman and later as the first African-American Mayor of Chicago. [2] It is a brick exterior building with a basement, a mixed use ground floor and 11 completely ...

3. Hawthorne Smoke Shop - Wikipedia

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   Coordinates: 41°51′4.0″N 87°44′45.1″W. The Hawthorne Smoke Shop (later known as the Ship[1]) was a gambling casino owned by American gangster Al Capone and run by fellow gangsters Frankie Pope, manager of horse racing at the Hawthorne, and Pete Penovich Jr., manager of games of chance. [2][3] It was located in Cicero, Illinois, where ...

4. Cicero race riot of 1951 - Wikipedia

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   Resulted in. $20,000 in damages. Parties. White rioters. Cicero police department. Number. 4,000. 60. The Cicero race riot of 1951 occurred July 11–12, when a mob of 4,000 whites attacked an apartment building that housed a single black family in a neighborhood in Cicero, Illinois.

5. Timeline of organized crime in Chicago - Wikipedia

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   September 17, 1923 – George Meegan, a Chicago bootlegger allied with the Southside O'Donnells, and Southside O'Donnell member George Bucher were killed by Frank McErlane. 1924 – Prosperous Irish mobsters Paddy Lake and Terry Druggan, of Chicago's little-known Valley Gang, each got a year in jail for contempt of court.

6. Cicero, Illinois - Wikipedia

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   Cicero is a town in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago. As of the 2020 census, the population was 85,268, making it the 11th-most populous municipality in Illinois. [4] The town is named after Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman statesman and orator. With over 89% of the town being of Hispanic descent, the town is the most ...

7. Hawthorne Works - Wikipedia

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   Hawthorne Works. Coordinates: 41.850°N 87.740°W. Aerial view of the Hawthorne Works, ca. 1907. The Hawthorne Works was a large factory complex of the Western Electric Company in Cicero, Illinois. Named after the original name of the town, Hawthorne, it opened in 1905 and operated until 1983. At its peak of operations, Hawthorne employed ...