I referred to the following books in compiling the Dion O’Banion story and to help recreate the gangster era in Roaring Twenties Chicago.

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Allen, Frederick Lewis, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.

Enright, Richard T, (Cowdery, Ray R, ed.), Capone’s Chicago. Lakeville, MN: Northstar Mashek Books, 1987.

Hoffman, Dennis E, Scarface Al and the Crime Crusaders. Carbondale, IL:

Southern Illinois University Press, 1993.

Johnson, Curt (with Sautter, R, Craig), Wicked City -- Chicago from Kenna to Capone.

Highland Park, IL: December Press, 1994.

Lyle, John H, The Dry and Lawless Years. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.,

1960.

Morgan, John, Prince of Crime. New York: Stein and Day, 1985.

Nash, Jay Robert, Bloodletters and Badmen. New York: M. Evans & Co., 1973.

Schoenberg, Robert J., Mr. Capone. New York: Quill/William Morrow, 1992.

Woodford, Jack (with Eliot, N.), My Years With Capone. Chicago: Future Publications, Inc (Woodford Memorial Edition), 1985.

Other sources of information on Dion O'Banion, his associates, his enemies and his era can be found in contemporary accounts in Chicago newspapers, such as the Chicago Tribune and in the records of the Chicago Historical Society.