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Prohibition had devastating consequences. Not only did prohibition generate disrespect for law, but it also contributed to organized crime in nearly every major city. Chicago became notorious as the home of Al Capone, a gangster that would net over $60 million a year. He would take control the Chicago liquor by killing off his competition.

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Reformers believed that alcohol led to crime, accidents on the job, and wife and child abuse. There then became an increase in lawlessness, such as smuggling and bootlegging, was evident. This was because criminals found a new source of income.

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By the mid 1920s only 19% of Americans supported prohibition. The rest wanted the amendment change or repealed. They believed that prohibition caused worse effects than the initial problem. The Americans, however, defended a law that they felt strengthened moral values.

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Speakeasies, also called blind pig or gin joint, was a hidden place where alcoholic beverages are illegally sold, especially such establishments in the United States during Prohibition from 1920-1933. In more recent years the term has also applied to legal bars that are modeled on historical speakeasies.

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By the mid 1920s, one big city alone, Chicago had an estimated 1,300 gangs which had spread like a deadly virus. By 1926 more than 12,000 murders were taking place every year across America. These Rival gangs where led by the powerful, Al “Scarface” Capone. The Roaring Twenties also saw bank robbery, auto theft gambling, and many other common crimes. Capone was responsible for a lot of brutal acts and violence but it was mainly against other gangsters and mobs. The most famous killings of his was the St. Valentine’s Day massacre in 1929 murdering 7 members and associates of the Chicago north side gang.