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The 1920s. It was everything you might imagine it to be.

It was a city of highs and lows. World-famous Michigan Avenue.

Massive skyscrapers, banks, department stores owned by some of the richest men in America.

And to counter this glorious gleaming image, expansive, stinking stockyards, endless blocks of tottering tenements,

immigrants competing for scraps of bread, socialist, screaming for economic justice,

politicians promising the moon but taking bribes alongside many of the cops that worked for them.

Prohibition was in full swing, creating an army of criminal bootlegers across the city.

Religious groups, many of them led by determined women, formed temperance organizations to combat the evils of the booze that was flowing faster than the Chicago River.

Al Capone was the king of the South Side, making tens of millions of dollars a year, and his organization responsible for killing up to 1,000 people.

But in 1924, a single crime through Chicago into the National Spotlight.

Two boys, still teenagers, planned and committed a kidnapping that quickly became murder.

To say it was a sensational story was an understatement. It absolutely hypnotized the country.

Everyone expected a certain level of filth from Chicago.

The mob hits and widespread corruption were par for the course here.

But two young men of exceptional backgrounds, murdering a young boy in cold blood? How could it happen?

Simon Bartz, the author of For the Thrill of It, Leopold, Loeb and the Murder that Shock Chicago, is a professor of history at John J. College of Criminal Justice.

He tells the disturbing story of Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, and what led them to commit one of the most infamous murders in Chicago history.

Simon Bartz, thank you so much for your time.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you for your time.

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