On July 26 of this year the Federal Bureau of Investigation will celebrate its century anniversary. (The Chicago office didn't officially open until August 21, 1920 and was headed by Special Agent James P. Rooney.)And, to celebrate, they are updating their website and including historical documents of interest.
The "Electronic Reading Room" includes many documents related to Chicago's history. In March, I included a link to the Internal Revenue Service's recently released documents pertaining to Al Capone, and they really were interesting. (See the post: Al Capone and the IRS Investigation)But, the F.B.I. site has 2,397 related to Capone and 107 pages on the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
Gangsters are not the only Chicagoans represented. There are also documents related to Jane Addams and Richard Wright, to name just two.
If you have some spare surfing time, check it out.
1 comments:
Sharon, this reminds me of the Pinkerton Detective Agency which, if memory serves me correctly, was the deputy sheriff of Chicago - Allan Pinkerton, that is. The agency gained national, and international, patrons and I read somewhere that this agency was the forerunner to the FBI which I was subsequently told was not true. Allan Pinkerton from the bit I've read about him was an interesting man. Perhaps you can give us a history of him in Chicago.
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