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04489aam a2200457 i 4500 001 8F0D7A96EA0B11E7B6F5700597128E48 003 SILO 005 20171226010227 008 140522s2014 ilua b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2014018821 020 $a 0252080297 020 $a 9780252080296 020 $a 0252038711 020 $a 9780252038716 035 $a (OCoLC)877367817 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d SPI $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d COO $d STF $d PUL $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-il $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/n-us-il 050 00 $a HV6795.C43 $b C67 2014 082 00 $a 364.10609773/1 $2 23 084 $a HIS036110 $a HIS036090 $a HIS036110 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Corsino, Louis, $d 1948- $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86854671 245 14 $a The neighborhood outfit : $b organized crime in Chicago Heights / $c Louis Corsino. 264 1 $a Urbana ; $b University of Illinois Press, $c [2014] 300 $a xv, 157 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "From the slot machine trust of the early 1900s to the prolific Prohibition era bootleggers allied with Al Capone, and for decades beyond, organized crime in Chicago Heights, Illinois, represented a vital component of the Chicago Outfit. Louis Corsino taps interviews, archives, government documents, and his own family's history to tell the story of the Chicago Heights "boys" and their place in the city's Italian American community in the twentieth century. Debunking the popular idea of organized crime as a uniquely Italian enterprise, Corsino delves into the social and cultural forces that contributed to illicit activities. As he shows, discrimination blocked opportunities for Italians' social mobility and the close-knit Italian communities that arose in response to such limits produced a rich supply of social capital Italians used to pursue alternative routes to success that ranged from Italian grocery stores to union organizing to, on occasion, crime"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "This project examines a longstanding organizational component of the Chicago Outfit known as the Chicago Heights "boys." The author aims to unravel the mix of social and cultural discriminations against Italians in the early part of the last century; to highlight the consequential structural and cultural characteristics that emerged within the local Italian population; and to examine the appropriation of these group characteristics as forms of social capital by segments of this population. Corsino traces the Chicago Heights operation from its beginning in the early 1900s through the post-World War II era. He presents the Chicago Heights Italian communities as a vibrant ethnic enclave with a close knit social network, a cluster of shared values and experiences, and an "Italian" identity. Depicting an Italian tie to organized crime in its local, concrete, and contingent context, he argues that the same social forces that produced Italian grocery stores, Italian mutual aid societies, and an Italian involvement in union organizing activity also produced this Italian association with the "mob." Drawing upon interviews, government documents, census data, secondary sources, and close acquaintance with the Chicago Heights context, this study shows how organized crime was embedded in the interaction between the Italian population and the Chicago Heights community"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a Organized crime $z Chicago Heights $z Chicago Heights $x History. 650 0 $a Italian Americans $z Chicago Heights $z Chicago Heights $x History. 651 0 $a Chicago Heights (Ill.) $x History. 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE $x Criminology. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY $z United States $x Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) $x Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY $z United States $x Pacific Northwest (OR, Wash.) $x Pacific Northwest (OR, Wash.) $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Italian Americans. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00980419 650 7 $a Organized crime. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01047884 651 7 $a Illinois $z Chicago Heights. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01202814 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211032356.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8F0D7A96EA0B11E7B6F5700597128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search