The Greatest Chicago Gang of Them All Chicago Daily Observer:
"Little wonder the parents of this historic, middle-class neighborhood—which changed from white to black in the 1970s—are so angry. Daley’s controversial Renaissance 2010 “school reform” project robbed them not only of a neighborhood school, but a name that still resonates through jazz history.
It goes back to 1922, when the 20’s were just starting to roar. A time when the “beer wars” were just about to begin and Al Capone was just another mope rising in the Chicago mob. Chicago was rugged and corrupt even then, but the ratatatatat of a tommy gun had not yet become its subtextual eponym."
"Little wonder the parents of this historic, middle-class neighborhood—which changed from white to black in the 1970s—are so angry. Daley’s controversial Renaissance 2010 “school reform” project robbed them not only of a neighborhood school, but a name that still resonates through jazz history.
It goes back to 1922, when the 20’s were just starting to roar. A time when the “beer wars” were just about to begin and Al Capone was just another mope rising in the Chicago mob. Chicago was rugged and corrupt even then, but the ratatatatat of a tommy gun had not yet become its subtextual eponym."