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One Deadly Valentine's Day Long Long Ago
Valentines day is coming up. Since it falls on the weekend, I am sending this post up today, when more Active Rain members are out prancing and dancing in the rain.
Most of us, when we think of Valentine's Day, think of a day that includes candy, flowers, romance and love. Fact is, exactly 80 years ago this Valentine's Day, history records one of the most famous Valentine's Day incidents ever. And it had little to do with love, other than maybe the love of money and power. Let us go back in time. In the flapper era of the 1920's, when prohibition was king in America, there was a gangland city known as Chicago.  

Gangsters and bootleggers tried to control the illegal booze trade, cops and revenuers tried to intercept the booze and pour it down the drain.

That was daily life in Chicago and the backdrop for the story that will soon unfold.
On Valentines Day 1929, seven men were gunned-down at a warehouse in Chicago. They were riddled with bullets, their bodies left crumpled and contorted at the base of a red brick wall.

 According to Chicago police, the killers were wearing police uniforms. The shooters, of course, were not cops. This was ... more

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