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President George H. W. Bush holds up a bag of crack cocaine during his Address to the Nation on National Drug Control Strategy on September 5, 1989.. The crack epidemic was a surge of crack cocaine use in major cities across the United States throughout the entirety of the 1980s and the early 1990s.
The crack epidemic in the U.S. was a time during the 1980s when people were using crack cocaine as payment for every day goods, crack cocaine was cheap. [6] [4] Thompson wrote about her life during that time in Queen Pin, co-written with David Ritz. It was published in 2010.
By 1987, crack was reported to be available in the District of Columbia and all but four states in the United States. [18] Some scholars have cited the crack "epidemic" as an example of a moral panic, noting that the explosion in use and trafficking of the drug actually occurred after the media coverage of the drug as an "epidemic". [21]
"The Loop" not only refers to Chicago's central business district, which is known as the Chicago Loop, but also a rectangular pattern formed by the city's elevated trains. Some trains entering the Loop do a complete circuit around the entire rectangular "loop", and after turning around all four corners, leave on the same path they came from.
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Chicago police arrested a suspect in connection to a hit-and-run collision that killed three people and injured one outside a popular Black-owned gay club in Chicago earlier this month.
Newspaper clip showing a photo of Louis Fratto when he appeared to testify at the Kefauver hearings.. Louis Thomas Fratto (July 17, 1907 – November 24, 1967), born Luigi Tommaso Giuseppe Fratto, also known as "Lew Farrell" and "Cockeyed Louie", was an American labor racketeer and organized crime figure in Chicago, Illinois and Des Moines, Iowa from the 1930s to 1967.