Everyone knows stories about the American Mafia and its varied forms of crime from racketeering to stock manipulation to murder.amp160 American Mafia Chicago explores the Windy City strolling through its neighborhoods and imagining scenes from the pastampmdashtelling the stories of the men women and families and revealing the events behind the legends and the history of the families beginnings and founding members.amp160Featuring the most fascinating stories from the early days when looselyorganized incredibly secretive gangs terrorized neighborhoods with names like Little Hell through the mobamprsquos headiest years when Al Capone and his men pretty well controlled the city American Mafia Chicago offers tantalizing glimpses into the era when Chicago was ruled by gangs with their evertwisting allegiances and tangled webs of relationships. Most of the buildings are gone now.But the stories are still there if you know where to look.