Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair: The End of the Gangster Era in Chicago is a historical look at Chicago during the darkest days of the Great Depression. The story of Chicago fighting the hold that organized crime had on the city to be able to put on The 1933 World's Fair. William Hazelgrove provides the exciting and sprawling history behind the 1933 World's Fair, the last of the golden age. He reveals the story of the six millionaire businessmen, dubbed The Secret Six, who beat Al Capone at his own game, ending the gangster era as prohibition was repealed. The story of an intriguing woman, Sally Rand, who embodied the World's Fair with her own rags to riches story and brought sex into the open. The story of Rufus and Charles Dawes who gave the fair a theme and then found financing in the worst economic times the country had ever experienced. The story of the most corrupt mayor of Chicago, William Thompson, who owed his election to Al Capone; and the mayor who followed him, Anton Cermak, who was murdered months before the fair opened by an assassin many said was hired by Al Capone. But most of all it's the story about a city fighting for survival in the darkest of times; and a shining light of hope called A Century of Progress.
Forty Years Later 1: Chicago, May 27, 1933 2: Valentine's Day, 1929 3: Chicago's Second World's Fair 4: WAMPAS Baby Star 5: Public Enemy Number One 6: The White City 7: Bootlegging 8: The Big Man 9: The Big Fellah Comes Home 10: The Perfect Storm 11: Financing a Fair 12: The Untouchables 13: Birth of the Nymph 14: Death in the Underground 15: Breaking Ground 16: The Secret Six 17: The Modernists 18: Lady Godiva 19: Horatio Alger Returns 20: The Design 21: The Secret Six Get to Work 22: Beginning to Build the Rainbow City 23: Gold Diggers 24: Meeting Al Capone 25: Water, Electric, and the Sky Ride 26: One Hundred Thousand 27: The Depression Fair 28: Nymphs 29: Springtime in Chicago 30: The Sky Ride 31: The Trial of Al Capone 32: Color and Light 33: The Plea Bargain 34: The Temple of Womanhood 35: The Bad Plea Bargain 36: Frank Lloyd Wright's Fair 37: Hayseeds 38: The Gaseous Tube 39: The Trial of Al Capone 40: The Disposable Fair 41: Verdict 42: Racing the Clock 43: Capone on Ice 44: Lady Godiva Again 45: Death of the Untouchables 46: A Day at the Fair 47: Sex at the Fair 48: A Century of Progress 49: Rags to Riches 50: En of the Fair Epilogue
