A CITY OF CRIME
Chicago’s Lawlessness CHURCHES PROTEST. AGAINST OFFICIAL NEGLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Feb. 28. As a protest against alleged city maladministration in Chicago, the Church Federation has appointed March 7 as a day of public prayer, and adopted a resolution declaring the conditions in Chicago are such that the ballot box has been wantonly violated, life and property in a large measure are unsafe, and the homes of the citizens are menaced by bombs, crime, graft and coruuption, besmirching the city’s good name. Moreover, the evidence seems clear that there is a partnership between criminals and some officials manifest by the hundreds of gambling joints, and vicedens openly tolerated by negligent
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Grey River Argus, 1 March 1928, Page 7
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112A CITY OF CRIME Grey River Argus, 1 March 1928, Page 7
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