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3 unusual facts about Touhy


Touhy

Patrick L. Touhy (1839–1911), born in Ireland, a real estate developer who founded the Rogers Park section of Chicago

Touhy Avenue, major thoroughfare throughout northern Chicago, Illinois as well as the North and Northwestern suburbs

Roger Touhy (1898–1959), Irish-American-era mob boss from Chicago, Illinois


Roger Touhy

In 1944, 20th Century Fox released a semi-biographical and highly fictionalized film based on Touhy's life, title Roger Touhy, Gangster.

He is best remembered for having been framed for the 1933 faked kidnapping of gangster John "Jake the Barber" Factor, a brother of cosmetics manufacturer Max Factor, Sr. Despite numerous appeals and at least one court ruling freeing him, Touhy spent 26 years in prison.

In 1933, Capone had corrupt law enforcement officers arrest Touhy for the kidnapping of William A. Hamm, the brewery heir.

Roger Touhy, Gangster

Roger Touhy, Gangster is a 1944 American gangster film based on the life of Chicago mob figure Roger Touhy, directed by film noir specialist Robert Florey.


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