Chicago Confidential

For Gary Warren Niebuhr

and

Ted Hertel,

neither of whom is in this book.

“Chicago is the heaven and haven

of mobsters, gamblers, thieves, killers,

and salesmen of every human sin.”

Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer

“The Mafia is no fairy tale. It is ominously

real, and it has scarred the face of America.”

Senator Estes Kefauver

“Murder is the essence of Chicago,

just as blackmail is the essence of Hollywood.”

Florabel Muir