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Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
I love it. At 15:50 in the video the actress playing Annie Chambers says that the PROGRESSIVES were coming after her. Progressive=statist liberal
At 19:35 she says the Pendergast Organization (democrats) tried to get rid of vice.
Reminds me of Storeyville in New Orleans. The red light district that was famous around the world until Woodrow Wilson's political appointee Josephus Daniels closed it down to save the virtue of the sailors in the US navy. We all know that Wilson was a progressive democrat.
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Pendergast was only a power politically, it was his partnership with the mafia that gave him control of the city. John Lazia and the Sicilian blackhands agreed to enforce Pendergast policy in exchange for the freedom to operate with out interruption from either the police or politicians. All prostitution, gambling and booze were their domain to include Ms. Chambers, hers was not the only house in operation. The Mob maintained long running houses at the Coates House, Hyde Park and Mulebach hotels in addition to the house Annie ran. The also maintained numerous gambling and whore houses doting the single family neighborhoods. Because at the time most hospitals would not treat the ladies, Dr. Nigro opened the downtown general hospital just for the treatment of afflicted ladies and the blacks in the local community. Dr Nigro was in fact a "made" member of cosa nostra.
