You also wrote about the dutch scavengers, not really a gang but def an In-group lol. Never realised Dutch Chicagoans played such a big part in the early days among all those ethnic groups like the Germans and Poles.
Yeah, the Dutch controlled the garbage business in Chicago since the 1920’s, although I believe those guys were not the type of criminals that we usually talk about but instead, they probably were involved in some minor corruption in the form of donations and stuff. During that period the Dutch scavengers formed their own association to regulate the whole business and also eliminate any possible competition, and all members decided not to compete with each other and traded accounts to concentrate their routes for greater efficiency, meaning it became some type of business brotherhood that created its own monopoly.
