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What would you do if all the bars went out of business? Here's how Chicagoans greeted Prohibition.

The bars of Division Street: where a man named Vanecko hit a man name Koschman. And in a Northwest Side bar, a policeman named Abbate beat a bartender named Karolina Obrycka.Sorrowful, both, but the city has a rich and lengthy tradition of booze and taverns.

The Vanecko indictment, collect calls from prisoners, massage parlors in Lakeview and more.  

Javier Sicilia, whose son was killed last year by drug traffickers in Cuernavaca, blames the drug war for violence on both sides of the border.

Crime was on the minds of Chicagoans on this January 16th in 1925.The city was earning a reputation as the wildest metropolis in the world. In the past five years robberies had gone up 35%, while the numbers of rapes, bombings, and arson cases were rising at an alarming rate.

The war has been getting out of hand. So Don Corleone calls for a summit meeting. All the gang chiefs sit down together and hammer out a truce.It's a famous scene from "The Godfather."

Ken Burns has a new film about Prohibition. One of the forgotten players in that comedy-drama was a Chicago mayor. His name was William E. Dever.Dever was born outside Boston in 1862. He came to Chicago at 25, worked as a tanner on Goose Island, and studied law at night.