The story
Site of 'perhaps the most infamous double-cross in all Prohibition history.' Dean O'Banion sold brewery to John Torrio for $500,000, knowing raid was imminent. Sale executed, brewery raided May 19, 1924, Torrio arrested. Triggered the Beer Wars between North and South Side gangs. Led to O'Banion's murder six months later.
Everything that was here
- until 1924
Sieben Brewerybrewery
Site of 'perhaps the most infamous double-cross in all Prohibition history.' Dean O'Banion sold brewery to John Torrio for $500,000, knowing raid was imminent. Sale executed, brewery raided May 19, 1924, Torrio…
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