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A Cocktail Toast to the Mob

The Preamble

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The Great Depression and prohibition overlapped. In 1930, a building in Chicago gave out free food to the unemployed. The city's emergency relief funds had been depleted. Over 3000 people stood in line on the first day it opened its doors.

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