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Chicago, October 1932. The depths of the Great Depression, marked by unemployment and poverty. The only chance some people felt they had to rise out of poverty, if only for a short time, was to win the lottery or at the punch-boards. The mob saw this as an opportunity, by coming up with a numbers game. People picked a number from 0-999; their odds of winning were 1-in-a-1,000-- the payoff was 600-to-1. The thousands of losers, pouring money into the mob, were never mentioned.
Episodes
1The Empty Chair 2Ma Barker and Her Boys 3The Jake Lingle Killing 4The George Bugs Moran Story 5Ain't We Got Fun? 6The Vincent Mad Dog Coll Story 7Mexican Stake-Out 8The Artichoke King 9The Tri-State Gang 10The Dutch Schultz Story 11You Can't Pick the Number 12The Underground Railway 13Syndicate Sanctuary 14The Noise of Death 15Star Witness 16The St. Louis Story 17One-Armed Bandits 18Little Egypt 19The Big Squeeze 20The Unhired Assassin (1) 21The Unhired Assassin (2) 22The White Slavers 23Three Thousand Suspects 24The Doreen Maney Story 25Portrait of a Thief 26Underworld Bank 27Head of Fire - Feet of Clay 28The Frank Nitti Story