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| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 102.1 | The History Cooperative
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March, 2006
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Kings
The True Story of Chicago's Policy Kings and Numbers Racketeers An Informal History

By Nathan Thompson
(Chicago: Bronzeville Press, 2003. Rev. ed. Pp. 506. Illustrations, appendices, index. Paperbound, $27.00.)

Kings is, as the book's second subtitle says, a truly informal history of the shady businessmen who ran "policy wheels," or underground lotteries, on Chicago's South Side in the first half of the twentieth century. Nathan Thompson details their business practices and philanthropic works, as well as the violence that routinely accompanied the enterprise. . . .
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