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later, the woman�s brother sliced in the face. This man was a friend of Charles �Lucky� Luciano. Al was punished and forced to apologize. Al did not become a leader until he went to Chicago. At the time he was still an apprentice to Johnny Torrio.
In the midst of the gang violence and bootlegging was Chicago. Chicago was a great place to start a ring of organized crime. The government was very weak which made it easier to do crime. entered the city of Chicago in 1920. At the time, �Big Jim� Colosimo ran things. He made about 50,000 dollars a month. Torrio and started their business with four gambling joints/whore houses in Chicago. These underground places were known as deuces. In Chicago met a man who would be his friend for life, Jack Guzik. Guzik was Jewish. His family lived off prostitution. Al never worried about racial issues, his wife was even Irish. After Jack Guzick was roughed up by a Joe Howard, let out his temper. It did not help when Howard called ...

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the White Sox did lose and Rothstein got back all of his money winning bets.
Charles �Lucky� Luciano was another one of the most successful gangsters during the 1920s. His place of crime was New York. Luciano started under a man named Maranzano as started under Johnny Torrio. Luciano was one of Maranzano�s top men. After being under him, Charles Luciano became tired of it, he wanted more power, and the only way he could do that was to kill Maranzano. He organized a meeting with several top gangsters including one of s representatives. They discussed the elimination of Maranzano. Lucianos plan to murder him was approved. When �Lucky� returned to New York he gunned down ...

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