Chicago Quote by Steve Miller

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the…

— Quincy Jones

I lived in mafia neighborhoods off and on when I was a kid. If you were in Little Italy, in East Harlem, in Brooklyn...…

— Don Winslow

From 1934 to 1963, the biggest criminals in America ended up on Alcatraz. Nowadays they end up on Wall Street.

— Craig Ferguson

When some of the gangs got involved with the drug trade, particularlythe crack cocaine trade, and the lethal violence started to flare up in…

— Meda Chesney-Lind

We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we…

— Quincy Jones

In the '60s and '70s, people didn't pay a lot of attention to gangs. I think gangs still existed, but gangs had fallen out…

— Meda Chesney-Lind

How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should…

— Tim Reid

Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary.

— Ruby Dee

My family had been involved in gangs since the 1970s.

— Richard Cabral

Most of the guys I grew up with let the streets and the gangs influence them. Maybe one or two of them made it…

— Daniel Jacobs

I wasn't aware of it at the time, but I was a big favorite with the Mafia.

— Brenda Lee

I knew so many gangsters, and I call on that experience with them for characters.

— Frank Vincent