Corrupt Chicago Tribune newsman Jake Lingle gunned down by Mafia thug

Jake Lingle was feeling lucky. He had a heavy wallet and a yen for the ponies, so he took the day off from his cops-and-robbers job with the Chicago Tribune and beat it toward a 1:30 train out of the Loop to Washington Park Race Track on the South Side. It was Monday, June 9, 1930. Lingle missed post time. In a dim, crowded walkway beneath Michigan Ave., a fair-haired gunman elbowed his way to Lingle’s heels and put a bullet in the back of his head, just below the brim of his straw boater. It was a professional job — courtesy of the Chicago Outfit, everyone assumed. Lingle’s murder, described as an “assassination,” was big news coast to coast.

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