"Chicago has long been a haven for organized crime. Al Capone, Johnny Torrio, Sam Giancana - these names bring to mind the heyday of Chicago's notorious Outfit. But every bit as intriguing and powerful as these white gangsters were the Windy City's African American mob bosses. In Black Gangsters of Chicago, author Ron Chepesiuk (Gangsters of Harlem) takes readers through the annals of black organized crime in Chicago, from the very first black gangsters to Willie Lloyd - the now wheelchair-bound and imprisoned headman of the Vice Lords." "Chicago's notoriety as the nation's most theatrically corrupt city is well deserved, and few locales have been the setting of as many factual and fictional crime tales. In this narrative history, Ron Chepesiuk profiles the key players in the nation's largest black organized crime population and traces the murderous evolution of the gangs and rackets that define Chicago's violent underworld."--BOOK JACKET.