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Though civil violence was commonplace in Southern Illinois during Prohibition--it was not unusual for men to walk the city streets carrying Tommy guns--the War in Illinois reached proportions bordering on the lunatic when two rival bootlegging gangs became engaged in an all-out struggle for control of the territory. Bain reconstructs a mind-boggling series of events with a cast of characters like no other on the American landscape: Charlie Birger,...
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