We work through the ugly and then we get to the 2020s, and I think we will once again be talking about the Roaring 20s!

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So why does this mobster, who reigned Chicago's ganglands for a comparatively short period in the roaring 20s, continue to be such a cult figure?

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"It was a period of booming economic prosperity, the roaring '20s, and very high crime, " he says.

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