Tornado Alley (PROG)

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I can only imagine as well. Hookers, hitmen and bootlegged liquor for starters.

Al Capone built his criminal empire in Chicago before moving to Cicero to escape the reach of Chicago police.[9] The 1924 Cicero municipal elections were particularly violent due to gang-related efforts to secure a favorable election result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero,_Illinois#:~:text=Cicero%20(originally%20known%20as%20Hawthorne,County%2C%20Illinois%2C%20United%20States.

On July 11–12, 1951, a race riot erupted in Cicero when a white mob of around 4,000 attacked and burned an apartment building at 6139 W. 19th Street that housed the African-American family of Harvey Clark Jr., a Chicago Transit Authority bus driver who had relocated to the all-white city. Governor Adlai E. Stevenson was forced to call out the Illinois National Guard. The Clarks moved away and the building had to be boarded up.[10] The Cicero riot received worldwide condemnation.[11]

Cicero was taken up and abandoned several times as site for a civil rights march in the mid-1960s. Cicero had a sundown town policy prohibiting African Americans from living in the city.[12] The American Friends Service Committee, Martin Luther King Jr., and many affiliated organizations, including churches, were conducting marches against housing and school de facto segregation and inequality in Chicago and several suburbs, but the leaders feared too violent a response in Chicago Lawn and Cicero.[13]

Eventually, a substantial march (met by catcalls, flying bottles and bricks) was conducted in Chicago Lawn, but only a splinter group, led by Jesse Jackson, marched in Cicero.[14] The marches in the Chicago suburbs helped galvanize support for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, extending federal prohibitions against discrimination to private housing. The act also created the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, which enforces the law.