Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: 1927 Chicago mayoral election. In the 1927 Chicago mayoral election Republican candidate William Hale Thompson (campaign poster shown) defeated Democratic incumbent William Emmett Dever. Dever had enforced Prohibition despite his opposition to it which led to rising violence in the city. Thompson who had been mayor from 1915 to 1923 was openly backed by the mobster Al Capone. He p
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