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Raising a Racket
NewYork and Chicago get
much of the blame for the
Mafia’s presence in America,
but Las Vegas was a play-
ground for organized crime
as far back as 1946, when
Bugsy Siegel built the city’s
first superhotel, the Flamingo.
Now, Vegas has established
amuseum—housed in the
former courtroom that
hosted the Kefauver hearings
on organized crime in
1950—to explore the history
of crime syndicates across the
country. Included are exhibits
on such notable gangsters as
Al Capone (pictured) and John
Go i; a wiretapping setup
where visitors can listen in
on coded conversations; and
the wall against which seven
mobsters were dispatched in
Chicago’s St. Valentine’s Day
Massacre.
opens feb. 14
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