Re: Old Taverns

Elmo <DoNoSpam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:dv46e4$1dkq$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Ah yes, Connoly's and Cuneen's on Devon. Fine establishments in their
time. Then there was The Locker Room on Howard Street and after it
closed down at 2:00 we'd all go around the corner to a place on Western
that had a 4:00 license, then head to IHOP for breakfast before heading
home. Working night shifts really screws things up.

Laurie's at Broadway & 52nd. They had a license allowing them to
serve later. It used to be a cop hangout so there was no real
enforcement in the "blue room" which usually contained a lot of
blue uniforms. The cops mingled with the drunks with no problems
unless someone took a swing. Even then, if it was a "personage"
known to the management, things were handled quietly. Usually
the cops would drive the guy home.

In the old days John Laurie kept a string of garages across the
alleyway each with a jack. Cop would pull up and go inside, and
John's mechanic would pull the squad car into a garage, jack up
a rear wheel, and put it in gear. The car accumulated "patrol miles"
while the cop was inside partying.

Some wisenheimer finally caught on, so John had the garages torn
down to save on his city taxes, but the scam ran at least a couple
of decades. At police roll call one day in several nearest precincts
they announced that Laurie's was going to be raided that day. They
didn't want any of their own to get caught up in anything nasty.
The betting parlor upstairs was the official target, but of course
the place was vacant with nothing incriminating when the police
arrived. Once the betting operation was discovered, it was moved
someplace else, back in business the same day. The mob had people
inside the phone company to do the multiple line phone hookups on
a moment's notice.

That's the way the city did business under old man Daily. His son,
presently mayor for life just like the old man, is much the
same. But Daily the elder ran the big shots in organized crime
out of Chicago. They moved out to Cicero, where they remain today.

http://www.ipsn.org/cicero.html

And this one in particular, Betty, the former Cicero President:

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=News&id=167093

John Laurie's son John Jr. was a judge, the only one indicted but
found "not guilty" in a series of federal corruption trials at
the end of Operation Greylord.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Greylord

Junior's Mom and dad were on their way to court on the day of the
verdict when the news came over the radio. Dad got so excited and
happy that he died of a massive heart attack on the spot.

Judge John Junior had a pub of his own. It is best not to speculate
at length about the rumors of the doings there.....

Junior is now retired. His new business venture is interesting:

http://www.chicagoweddingjudge.com/about_me.html

One would think a lawyer could find something more interesting,
and more profitable, to do. To my mind this is the top layer for
other business.

The family didn't want to run John Senior's joint, so they sold
it off. The business was no longer very good, but the real
estate had significant value.

Some of the connection between the mob and judges is demonstrated
here:

http://www.ipsn.org/maltese.html

And of course taverns and pubs are, especially in the Chicago area,
one of several legitimate businesses of choice for petty mobsters.
See also "The Sopranos" TV series.

There's a whole n'other side to "the pub tradition." LOL


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