CARLI Digital Collections Featured Image: A Map of Chicago's Gangland

Published by Bruce-Roberts, Inc., in 1931, this map was “designed to inculcate the most important principles of piety and virtue in young persons, and graphically portray the evils and sin of large cities.” Among the many gang locations shown on the map are Capone Territory, Little Italy, and District O’Banion. The numbers in red circles give the sequence of important events in Chicago's gangland war. Illustrative insets include Mrs. O'Leary's cow, bootleggers stealing wheels from prohibition cars, and police tipping over a speakeasy.

This map is part of the Newberry Library’s Great Lakes Digital Collection, featuring nearly 550 images of Illinois and the Great Lakes region from the French period of exploration and settlement to the early 20th century. Though maps make up the majority of the images in the collection, a representative sampling of the Newberry's visual sources for the study of North American Indians is also included.

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