When you’re “connected” in the Windy City, there are no guarantees.I grew up in the Family, navigating the labyrinth of courtesies in the layer cake of the Chicago Mob.When the capo says jump, you ask “how high?”They tell you to off somebody… You get the job done or you don’t come home.Play your cards right, and you’ll be a Made Man.Set for life—a violent life, but set.Play them wrong… well, the pay is great, but the retirement plan stinks.

On the eve of the Civil War, New Orleans was far more cosmopolitan than Southern, with its sizable population of immigrants, Northern-born businessmen, and white and Black Creoles. However, by 1880 New Orleans rivaled Richmond as a bastion of the Lost Cause. After Appomattox, a significant number of Confederate veterans moved into the city giving elites the backing to form a Confederate civic culture.While it's fair to say that the three Confederate monuments and the white supremac...

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