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Library Discourse: Trying to Rid Chicago of Capone & Mafia During World’s Fair, Great Depression

by eNews Park Forest on August 19, 2019

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Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The Park Forest Public Library, 400 Lakewood Blvd, will host author and historian William Hazelgrove on Thursday, August 22 at 7:00 p.m. William will cover the Chicago Mafia and the efforts to get rid of Al Capone while putting on a World’s Fair in the worst year of the Great Depression.