The neighborhood outfit : : organized crime in Chicago Heights / / Louis Corsino.
"This project examines a longstanding organizational component of the Chicago Outfit known as the Chicago Heights "boys." The author aims to unravel the mix of social and cultural discriminations against Italians in the early part of the last century; to highlight the consequential st...
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Corsino, Louis, 1948- author. The neighborhood outfit : organized crime in Chicago Heights / Louis Corsino. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014] 2014 1 online resource (177 pages) : illustrations text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "This project examines a longstanding organizational component of the Chicago Outfit known as the Chicago Heights "boys." The author aims to unravel the mix of social and cultural discriminations against Italians in the early part of the last century; to highlight the consequential structural and cultural characteristics that emerged within the local Italian population; and to examine the appropriation of these group characteristics as forms of social capital by segments of this population. Corsino traces the Chicago Heights operation from its beginning in the early 1900s through the post-World War II era. He presents the Chicago Heights Italian communities as a vibrant ethnic enclave with a close knit social network, a cluster of shared values and experiences, and an "Italian" identity. Depicting an Italian tie to organized crime in its local, concrete, and contingent context, he argues that the same social forces that produced Italian grocery stores, Italian mutual aid societies, and an Italian involvement in union organizing activity also produced this Italian association with the "mob." Drawing upon interviews, government documents, census data, secondary sources, and close acquaintance with the Chicago Heights context, this study shows how organized crime was embedded in the interaction between the Italian population and the Chicago Heights community"-- Provided by publisher. Description based on print version record. Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. Organized crime Illinois Chicago Heights History. Italian Americans Illinois Chicago Heights History. Chicago Heights (Ill.) History. Electronic books. Print version: Corsino, Louis. Neighborhood outfit : organized crime in Chicago Heights. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014] 9780252038716 (DLC)10962224 ProQuest (Firm) https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/oeawat/detail.action?docID=3414411 Click to View |
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