Old-school bad guys come to life via the Chicago Tribune’s photographic archive

Old-school bad guys come to life via the Chicago Tribune’s photographic archive
Old-school bad guys come to life via the Chicago Tribune’s photographic archive

Old-school bad guys come to life via the Chicago Tribune’s photographic archive

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Some of Chicago’s most notorious crimes and criminals come back to life-photographically speaking-in the new book Gangsters and Grifters: Classic Crime Photos from the Chicago Tribune. Erin Mystkowski and Marianne Mather Morgan, two of the Tribune’s photo editors, share the stories behind the images they uncovered deep below ground in the newspaper’s archives.