McDonough, Daniel. "The Chicago Press' Treatment of the Gangster, 1924-1931." Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 82, no. 1, (Spring 1989) p. 17-32. In Daniel McDonough's Chicago Press Treatment of the Gangster, 1924-1931, newspaper opinions and actions toward gangster crimes and punishments are explored. Gangster-related crime began to increase during the period between 1924 and 1931 and newspapers covered every story. There were four major newspapers at the time that expressed their opinions on gangster-related crimes and these were the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Evening Post, the Chicago Herald and Examiner, and the Chicago Daily News. Gangsters started to become a big problem because they committed crimes but were never accounted for. The Chicago Tribune wrote: “It is impossible to hang them when they commit murder. It is almost impossible to even get them into the penitentiary, and it is quite impossible to keep them there (p. 18).” The press believed that the reason for this was that the gangsters had bribed the political power to get the charges dropped. It seemed so to me...