A Prohibition raid in 1923 Chicago shows a man emptying mash used to make whiskey, via a hose, out onto the street in front of a group of children. Officer William Murphy, left, and Capt.

In terms of big city bar history, Chicago's is among the most storied--and sudsy. The Windy City has become synonymous with the Prohibition Era thanks to pop culture and American history's ...

Patrons at a Walgreens soda fountain enjoy the first 3.2% beers in April 1933 in Chicago near the end of Prohibition. (Chicago Herald and Examiner) Here’s a look back at what happened in the ...

Chicago loves booze, and nothing illustrates that fact more than the sheer number of bars in the city that can trace their roots back to the era of Prohibition. On December 5, Chicago will join ...

Nowadays the country is facing the “enforcement crisis” and last week the Anti-Saloon League meeting in Chicago called its ... Andrews (in charge of Prohibition); Andrew Volstead, onetime ...

It’s the first distillery to open in Chicago since prohibition! “Koval” is known around the world for its bright, ...

The part of the neighborhood remained dry even after the nationwide alcohol prohibition of the 1920s ... Dry precincts are not unheard of in Chicago. Under the Illinois Liquor Control Act of ...

Let's say instead of violent nerd Gordon Freeman wasting alien invaders in City 17, Half-Life 2 was actually about a gritty hardboiled detective fighting corruption in Prohibition-era Chicago.