How Did Chicago Solve The Problem Of The 18th Century

The 18th amendment was a horrible idea and should have never happened. It was a slap to the face of the American people and the country itself. Prohibition did not help make the country better, but instead it made matters worse. Many problems occurred after the prohibition started, especially in the city of Chicago. In the article, “The Corrupt City” it states that, “Chicago was a perfect city for the development of large-scale organized criminal activity. Due to the many problems that Chicago faced in the early 1900s, it became a perfect breeding ground for large-scale organized criminal activity. “The Corrupt City” states that there were more reasons for Chicago being corrupt. One of the other reasons was the rapid expanding of

The article, ¨Organized Crime in the 1920’s and Prohibition¨ said that the 18th amendment caused a huge growth in the amount of illegal saloons and bars, which more than doubled. Instead of the prohibition decreasing the amount of criminal activity, it caused more. Another thing the article, ¨Organized Crime in the 1920’s and Prohibition¨ states was that organized crime flourished because of prohibition and mostly kept flourishing even after it had ended. The reason for it flourishing was because prohibition opened up a brand new money-making criminal market. The reason it kept on flourishing was because gangsters made so much money from it that they could afford to keep operating for a long time after. The article, ¨Organized Crime in the 1920’s and Prohibition¨ also states that, ¨deaths from alcohol poisoning had risen 400 percent.¨ The reason for that was because people were making alcohol in their homes and buying it on the streets. This also shows how prohibition only made matters

Instead of it solving problems in the country, it created even more because criminals used it as a way to make money and gangster, Al Capone, was one of them. Woodwiss states that Al Capone made more than anybody from it with a yearly income of millions upon millions of dollars. This shows how much money could be made from bootlegging and how Capone was the biggest seller of it. Another thing Woodwiss states is that Capone spent millions of dollars to pay off law enforcement and officials at all levels to make him and his partners immune from arrests. This shows how corrupt the city of Chicago was and what many gangsters like Al Capone did. Woodwiss also stated that the illegal liquor trade created thousands of new jobs and was so much better paid. Instead of prohibition ending the buying and selling of liquor, it made it even more easier to get and turned many people into