With a selection of fine historic images from his bestselling bookampamp160Historic Photos of Chicago Crime The Capone Eraampamp160John Russick provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on Chicagos gangster era.Perhaps no city has a more fabled past than Chicago home of legendary Al Capone. But that fabled past is often portrayed separate from the surrounding web of social realities without which no event no period in time can be understood.ampamp160Remembering Chicago Crime in the Capone Eraampamp160addresses this problem by opening with a compelling look at Chicagoampamp8217s cityscape to include a broad range of cultural phenomenafrom suffrage to jazzampamp8212essential to the contextualization of crime in the 1920s and 1930s. The history then proceeds as its title suggestsampamp8212to a riveting overview of crime in Chicago chockfull of images documenting notorious gangsters and gruesome gangland wars.