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"""This distinctly personal memoir of mob life as it played out for Charles Hager in Chicago Heights, Illinois, in the 1960s and 1970s is a candid, revealing, and up-close statement about gangster life on the fringe. It's not a world of glamour and the Godfather. It's tough. It's gritty. It's violent and it's often ugly.""--Richard C. Lindberg, author of Gangland Chicago: Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City ""This book provides a fascinating look into one of the most famous murders in gangland history. It also challenges widely held beliefs about the organization of the Outfit, the traditional organized crime group in Chicago. Easily readable and insightful.""--Robert M. Lombardo, author of Organized Crime in Chicago: Beyond the Mafia ""This is a well-written 'personal document' in the Chicago School tradition, indispensable for those who want to understand the day-to-day workings of the Outfit.""--John M. Hagedorn, author of The Insane Chicago Way: The Daring Plan by Chicago Gangs to Create a Spanish Mafia ""A simply fascinating contribution to the growing library of American organized crime biographies and histories in general, and the Chicago Outfit in particular, ""Chicago Heights: Little Joe College, the Outfit, and the Fall of Sam Giancana"" is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to personal reading lists, as well as community, and academic library Organized Crime collections and supplemental studies reading lists in particular.""--Carl Logan, Midwest Book Review"

This distinctly personal memoir of mob life as it played out for Charles Hager in Chicago Heights, Illinois, in the 1960s and 1970s is a candid, revealing, and up-close statement about gangster life on the fringe. It's not a world of glamour and the Godfather. It's tough. It's gritty. It's violent and it's often ugly. --Richard C. Lindberg, author of Gangland Chicago: Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City This book provides a fascinating look into one of the most famous murders in gangland history. It also challenges widely held beliefs about the organization of the Outfit, the traditional organized crime group in Chicago. Easily readable and insightful. --Robert M. Lombardo, author of Organized Crime in Chicago: Beyond the Mafia This is a well-written 'personal document' in the Chicago School tradition, indispensable for those who want to understand the day-to-day workings of the Outfit. --John M. Hagedorn, author of The Insane Chicago Way: The Daring Plan by Chicago Gangs to Create a Spanish Mafia A simply fascinating contribution to the growing library of American organized crime biographies and histories in general, and the Chicago Outfit in particular, Chicago Heights: Little Joe College, the Outfit, and the Fall of Sam Giancana is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to personal reading lists, as well as community, and academic library Organized Crime collections and supplemental studies reading lists in particular. --Carl Logan, Midwest Book Review

This distinctly personal memoir of mob life as it played out for Charles Hager in Chicago Heights, Illinois, in the 1960s and 1970s is a candid, revealing, and up-close statement about gangster life on the fringe. It's not a world of glamour and the Godfather. It's tough. It's gritty. It's violent and it's often ugly. --Richard C. Lindberg, author of Gangland Chicago: Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City This book provides a fascinating look into one of the most famous murders in gangland history. It also challenges widely held beliefs about the organization of the Outfit, the traditional organized crime group in Chicago. Easily readable and insightful. --Robert M. Lombardo, author of Organized Crime in Chicago: Beyond the Mafia This is a well-written 'personal document' in the Chicago School tradition, indispensable for those who want to understand the day-to-day workings of the Outfit. --John M. Hagedorn, author of The Insane Chicago Way: The Daring Plan by Chicago Gangs to Create a Spanish Mafia A simply fascinating contribution to the growing library of American organized crime biographies and histories in general, and the Chicago Outfit in particular, Chicago Heights: Little Joe College, the Outfit, and the Fall of Sam Giancana is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to personal reading lists, as well as community, and academic library Organized Crime collections and supplemental studies reading lists in particular. --Carl Logan, Midwest Book Review

This distinctly personal memoir of mob life as it played out for Charles Hager in Chicago Heights, Illinois, in the 1960s and 1970s is a candid, revealing, and up-close statement about gangster life on the fringe. It's not a world of glamour and the Godfather. It's tough. It's gritty. It's violent and it's often ugly. --Richard C. Lindberg, author of Gangland Chicago: Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City This book provides a fascinating look into one of the most famous murders in gangland history. It also challenges widely held beliefs about the organization of the Outfit, the traditional organized crime group in Chicago. Easily readable and insightful. --Robert M. Lombardo, author of Organized Crime in Chicago: Beyond the Mafia This is a well-written 'personal document' in the Chicago School tradition, indispensable for those who want to understand the day-to-day workings of the Outfit. --John M. Hagedorn, author of The Insane Chicago Way: The Daring Plan by Chicago Gangs to Create a Spanish Mafia

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Charles Hager gradually worked his way from sweeping up his uncle's bar to earning responsibility and trust as a friend of the Chicago Outfit. He left the Heights in 1975 and built a series of successful businesses in West Virginia and North Carolina.

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