2.The Outfit- 32 minutes
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The Out fit is important to our narrative for several reasons. First it was the first Chicago gang that "institutionalized," persisted despite murder and incarceration of leaders. It adapted to first the onset of Prohibition and then life without bootlegging. None of this would have been possible without extensive police and official corruption, a Chicago trademark. Finally, the Outfit played a role in both supporting the black Policy kingdom, then taking it over and destroying an importatn black institution. That take over continued a racist policy of not allowing African Americans to control their own community, even ursurping the mantle of the lords of vice.
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