The Outfit

As a wave of political unrest sweeps 1923 Chicago, along comes the rise of a progressive mayoral candidate who vows to take down the bootleggers, effectively driving Al Capone’s operation to the suburb of Cicero, Illinois. In this week’s installment of “Al Capone All-American,” Dan and Alana find the Outfit’s bloody assault on democracy in Cicero is but a prelude for their return to Chicago—installing a buffoonish new mayor all-too reminiscent of a current-day executive.

Sources
Historian Mario Gomes's excellent website, My Al Capone Museum (https://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/)
Capone: The Man and the Era by Laurence Bergreen
Mr. Capone: The Real - and Complete - Story of Al Capone, by Robert J. Schoenberg
Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone by John Kobler
Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend by Deirdre Bair
The Wicked City: Chicago From Kenna to Capone by Curt Johnson with R. Craig Sautter
Al Capone’s Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition by John Binder
Gangland Chicago: Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City by Richard C. Lindberg
Prohibition Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation by Marc Mappen
The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America by Gus Russo
The Chicago Historical Homicide Project, Northwestern University.
"The Mostly True Story of America’s First Black Private Investigator," Matthew Wolfe, The Atavist Magazine.
Newspapers & magazines including: The Chicago Defender, Time Magazine, The Daily Worker, The Chicago Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Record-Herald, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Inter Ocean.
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The Outfit is a production of Higher Ground and Headgum.
Hosted by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson
Executive Produced by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson
Produced by Julia Murray
Production Assistance by Franchesca Diaz and CJ Archerd
Sound Design and Engineering by Ryan Kozlowski and Andrew Eapen
Show theme is Bittersweet Defeat by OTE

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It’s prohibition-era Chicago, and Al Capone and his gang boss, John Torrio, stand to make millions off of bootlegging. As long as crime can be organized along professional boundaries, there should be no need for violence. So why, as Prohibition wore on, did things get bloodier and bloodier? This week, Dan and Alana dig into The North Side Mob, and how their uniquely divided power structure led to an increasingly violent fight for territory.

Sources
The Man Who Got Away: The Bugs Moran Story by Rose Keefe
The Wicked City: Chicago From Kenna to Capone by Curt Johnson with R. Craig Sautter
Al Capone’s Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition by John Binder
Gangland Chicago: Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City by Richard C. Lindberg
Prohibition Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation by Marc Mappen
Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend by Deirdre Bair
The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America by Gus Russo
Mr. Capone: The Real - and Complete - Story of Al Capone, by Robert J. Schoenberg
Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone by John Kobler
Capone: The Man and the Era by Laurence Bergreen
Newspapers including The Daily Worker, The Chicago Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Record-Herald, The Chicago Sun-Times.

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The Outfit is a production of Higher Ground and Headgum.
Hosted by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson
Executive Produced by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson
Produced by Julia Murray
Production Assistance by Franchesca Diaz and CJ Archerd
Sound Design and Engineering by Ryan Kozlowski and Andrew Eapen
Show theme is Bittersweet Defeat by OTE

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This week, on the next installment of "Al Capone All-American," Dan and Alana turn to the greatest gift Al Capone could have asked for on his 21st birthday: the national prohibition on the sale and manufacture of alcohol. From the Ku Klux Klan, to poisoned rotgut liquor, to the singularly forgotten political genius behind the law, prohibition would come to define an entire era of American history--a story freshly relevant today.

Sources
Historian Mario Gomes's excellent website, My Al Capone Museum (https://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/)
The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State by Lisa McGirr
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition by Karen Blumenthal
Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America by Edward Behr
Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition by Mark Lawrence Schrad
One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s by Thomas R. Pegram
Prohibition: A Very Short Introduction by W.J. Rorabaugh
Alcoholics Anonymous
Al Capone’s Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition by John Binder
The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America by Gus Russo
Gangland Chicago: Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City by Richard C. Lindberg
Prohibition Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation by Marc Mappen
The Wicked City: Chicago From Kenna to Capone by Curt Johnson with R. Craig Sautter
Mr. Capone: The Real - and Complete - Story of Al Capone, by Robert J. Schoenberg
Young Al Capone: The Untold Story of Scarface in New York, 1899-1925 by William and John Balsamo
Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone by John Kobler
Capone: The Man and the Era by Laurence Bergreen

Newspapers and Magazines: The Buffalo News, The Daily Item, the Springfield News-Sun, the Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Times, Washington Daily News, Brooklyn Daily Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune.

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The Outfit is a production of Higher Ground and Headgum.
Hosted by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson
Executive Produced by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson
Produced by Julia Murray
Production Assistance by CJ Archerd and Franchesca Diaz
Sound Design and Engineering by Ryan Kozlowski and Andrew Eapen
Show theme is Bittersweet Defeat by OTE

Like the show? Rate The Outfit on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review.
Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok.
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In this, the second episode of Outfit’s limited series "Al Capone All-American," Dan and Alana learn how the young Scarface, now on the cusp of adulthood, found himself drifting westward toward the city of destiny: Chicago. Under the influence of two underworld mentors with competing philosophies, who will Al Capone align himself with as Prohibition rears its head?

Sources
Historian Mario Gomes's excellent website, My Al Capone Museum (https://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/)
Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend by Deirdre Bair
Al Capone’s Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition by John Binder
The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America by Gus Russo
Gangland Chicago: Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City by Richard C. Lindberg
Prohibition Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation by Marc Mappen
The Wicked City: Chicago From Kenna to Capone by Curt Johnson with R. Craig Sautter
Mr. Capone: The Real - and Complete - Story of Al Capone, by Robert J. Schoenberg
Young Al Capone: The Untold Story of Scarface in New York, 1899-1925 by William and John Balsamo
Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone by John Kobler
Capone: The Man and the Era by Laurence Bergreen
Newspapers including The Brooklyn Daily Times, The New York Daily News, The New York Times, The New York Herald, The Chicago Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Record-Herald, The Chicago Sun-Times.
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The Outfit is a production of Higher Ground and Headgum.
Hosted by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson
Executive Produced by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson
Produced by Julia Murray
Production Assistance by Franchesca Diaz and CJ Archerd
Sound Design and Engineering by Ryan Kozlowski and Andrew Eapen
Show theme is Bittersweet Defeat by OTE

Like the show? Rate The Outfit on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review.
Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok.
Advertise on The Outfit via Gumball.fm
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Before he was Al Capone — the Scarface of popular myth — he was Alphonse Capone. In this inaugural episode of The Outfit’s first ever limited series, Dan and Alana take a trip back in time to dissect the man that made the man. Where a Brooklyn-born child of immigrants, under the tutelage of one very sinister Coney Island mentor, began his journey from a lowly shoeshiner to dominating the Jazz Age so thoroughly that he still remains synonymous with organized crime today.

Sources:
Historian Mario Gomes's excellent website, My Al Capone Museum (https://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/)
The Mammoth Book of Journalism by Jon E. Lewis
Al Capone’s Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition by John Binder
Mr. Capone: The Real - and Complete - Story of Al Capone, by Robert J. Schoenberg
Young Al Capone: The Untold Story of Scarface in New York, 1899-1925 by William and John Balsamo
Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone by John Kobler
Capone: The Man and the Era by Laurence Bergreen
Newspapers including The Brooklyn Daily Times, The New York Daily News, The New York Times, The New York Herald.
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The Outfit is a production of Higher Ground and Headgum.
Hosted by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson
Executive Produced by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson
Produced by Julia Murray
Production Assistance by CJ Archerd and Franchesca Diaz
Sound Design and Engineering by Ryan Kozlowski and Andrew Eapen
Show theme is Bittersweet Defeat by OTE

Like the show? Rate The Outfit on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review.
Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok.
Advertise on The Outfit via Gumball.fm
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