I was at my friend Tim’s apartment the other day and found this Uptown Chicago neighborhood guide.  I started reading about the Green Mill Cocktail Lounge and how it used to be owned by Jack McGurn, who was one of Al Capone’s right hand men.  They even called McGurn ‘Machinegun’ and Capone himself was a regular at the lounge.  One of the singers, Joe E. Lewis tried to leave the Green Mill for another club and McGurn slit his throat and cut out his tongue.  Lewis actually survived and recovered enough to flee Chicago for California to resume his singing career, though he never approached the same heights he did in Chicago.  They even made a movie about what happened in the 1950s called ‘The Joker Is Wild” and none other than Frank Sinatra starred as Joe E. Lewis.  Though a Hollywood soundstage passed as the Green Mill, the source material made Sinatra curious enough to make a trip out to Chicago to see the Green Mill himself.  That’s all really interesting.  I’d heard about Al Capone and had seen the Untouchables and knew about the Valentine’s Day Massacre, but there’s dozens of other little stories like that.    This city just drips with history.