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Time Out Chicago / Issue 158 : Mar 6–12, 2008

Essential Chicago

First & foremost

How well do you know your Second City innovations? From Twinkies to Tom Cruise freakouts, these Chicago premieres test your ability to store the randomest of city facts.

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During Prohibition, Chicago became the first city to generate more than $60 million a year on its black-market booze. Which of the following Chicago businesses was not uncovered as a front for selling hooch?
a) A Kensington shoe-shine parlor
b) A Lincoln Park haberdasher
c) A Cottage Grove fishmonger
d) A Maxwell Street candy store
Scroll down for the answer.

Answer: b. Although the speakeasy remains the iconic image of Chicago during Prohibition, police quickly caught on to the locations of popular saloons. A 1923 police raid revealed some of the other ingenious ways in which a nervous public got their booze. “Now They Dish Out Hooch with Fish and Candy,” declared the headline in the Chicago Daily Tribune.

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