The 22nd Street casino was raided on May 16, 1925, by sheriff’s deputes accompanied by the president of a Cicero citizens organization, a local man of the cloth.
There were approximately 40 to 50 people employed in the business.” There was a branch operation in the nearby Hawthorne Race Track, and no doubt about who the owner was. “The business consisted of taking bets on horse races, roulette wheel, craps and poker. But as an FBI agent’s deposition notes, the profits didn’t come from stogies and breath mints: As its moniker suggests, it appeared to be a cigar store. in Cicero, and subsequently at other locations in that suburb. One was the Hawthorne Smoke Shop at 4837 W. court ordered it closed for liquor violations during Prohibition in 1926. Prohibition workers lock the doors of Colosimo's Restaurant at 2126 Wabash Ave.
