The I'm going to do. The When seven men were gunned down in a Chicago garage in 1929, their killers thought nothing of it.

After all, they had been engaged in a hostile war against each other,

and the victims were merely collateral damage.

What they didn't expect though was that these killings

would mark the end of the powerful grip that they had had over American society.

With these seven murders they managed to topple the organized crime

syndicates that terrorized the country's citizens. This is the story of the

1929 Valentine's Day massacre. What began as a simple

murder turned into a catalyst for the downfall of America's most notorious

villain and the crime syndicates that had turned America's streets into their personal battlefields.

Chicago in the early 20th century was incredibly diverse things to the influx of European

immigrants as well as Americans relocating from other states both of whom had

come to the city in search of a better life.

Unfortunately, this sudden population growth meant that local law enforcement

found themselves overstretched and severely outmatched, which led to them quickly losing control over the citizens.

This lack of police presence, combined with the melting pot, transformed Chicago into a breeding

ground for organized crime. It didn't take long before petty thieves and

thugs became full-time gangsters in a desperate bid to support their families and

survive the unfair social systems working against them.

Among the many groups that emerged from these unfortunate circumstances

was the North Side gang, which was led by a known criminal named Dean O'Bannon, and consisted mostly of Irish

Americans with a few Polish-American members too. They took control of the area's breweries and distilleries which enabled them to monopolise the city's supply of beer and whiskey.

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