The Al Capone Story Part I

The Chicago Way - The Al Capone Story Part I, Born in Red House Brooklyn
"They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way!" -The Untouchables

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” - President Barak Obama as quoted in ‘We Bring a Gun’ The New York Times Caucus Blog on June 14, 2008



On November 4, 2008, America changed. On that day, the Chicago Machine went national with the election of Barak Obama to the Presidency of the United States. While the media largely failed to examine the implications of this, the Chicago Way style corruption of our core institutions once almost ripped the very fabric of our society apart.
The Chicago Way Series - The Al Capone Story

This is a multipart series devoted to examining the adoption of Chicago style power practices nationally. While the Chicago Way is most closely associated with politics, it actually involves the corruption of multiple institutions. The Al Capone story focuses on the corruption of the American business model by one of the foremost practitioners of this method. Along the way, we will also take the opportunity to explore other aspects of machine style corruption and its influence on American life. This is the first post in this series

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