000743761 000__ 03074cam\a2200409\i\4500 000743761 001__ 743761 000743761 005__ 20210515112254.0 000743761 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000743761 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000743761 008__ 140522t20142014ilua\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000743761 020__ $$z9780252080296 000743761 020__ $$a9780252096662$$qelectronic book 000743761 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10962224 000743761 035__ $$a(OCoLC)894227411 000743761 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$beng$$erda$$epn$$cCaPaEBR 000743761 043__ $$an-us-il 000743761 05014 $$aHV6795.C43$$bC67 2014eb 000743761 08204 $$a364.10609773/1$$223 000743761 1001_ $$aCorsino, Louis,$$d1948-$$eauthor. 000743761 24514 $$aThe neighborhood outfit$$h[electronic resource] :$$borganized crime in Chicago Heights /$$cLouis Corsino. 000743761 264_1 $$aUrbana :$$bUniversity of Illinois Press,$$c[2014] 000743761 264_4 $$c©2014 000743761 300__ $$a1 online resource (177 pages) :$$billustrations 000743761 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000743761 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia 000743761 338__ $$aonline resource$$2rdacarrier 000743761 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000743761 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000743761 520__ $$a"This project examines a longstanding organizational component of the Chicago Outfit known as the Chicago Heights "boys." The author aims to unravel the mix of social and cultural discriminations against Italians in the early part of the last century; to highlight the consequential structural and cultural characteristics that emerged within the local Italian population; and to examine the appropriation of these group characteristics as forms of social capital by segments of this population. Corsino traces the Chicago Heights operation from its beginning in the early 1900s through the post-World War II era. He presents the Chicago Heights Italian communities as a vibrant ethnic enclave with a close knit social network, a cluster of shared values and experiences, and an "Italian" identity. Depicting an Italian tie to organized crime in its local, concrete, and contingent context, he argues that the same social forces that produced Italian grocery stores, Italian mutual aid societies, and an Italian involvement in union organizing activity also produced this Italian association with the "mob." Drawing upon interviews, government documents, census data, secondary sources, and close acquaintance with the Chicago Heights context, this study shows how organized crime was embedded in the interaction between the Italian population and the Chicago Heights community"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000743761 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000743761 650_0 $$aOrganized crime$$zIllinois$$zChicago Heights$$xHistory. 000743761 650_0 $$aItalian Americans$$zIllinois$$zChicago Heights$$xHistory. 000743761 651_0 $$aChicago Heights (Ill.)$$xHistory. 000743761 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aCorsino, Louis.$$tNeighborhood outfit : organized crime in Chicago Heights.$$dUrbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014]$$z9780252038716 000743761 852__ $$bebk 000743761 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/usiricelib/Doc?id=10962224$$zOnline Access 000743761 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:743761$$pGLOBAL_SET 000743761 980__ $$aEBOOK 000743761 980__ $$aBIB 000743761 982__ $$aEbook 000743761 983__ $$aOnline