During the 1871-1929 time period Chicago was a town in which both criminal and social
             workers operated. For various reasons both of these groups found a way to operate in the
             same city. Sometimes because they wanted to co-exist in the same place and sometimes
             A large amount of Chicago's famous social work dealt with the rising immigrant
             population. These immigrants came to Chicago from other lands looking for a better life.
             However, it would be naive to think all of the immigrants were willing to attain power and
             wealth legally. These immigrants would become both legit and corrupt politicians as well
             as some of Chicago's most notorious gangsters. Fred Lundin, an immigrant from Sweden,
             was behind the election of W.H. Thompson as mayor of Chicago. Lundin did not follow
             the traditional American route to success. He did not scrape and claw his way to the top;
             important friends pushed him up the ranks. Despite this, Lundin bought himself a seat in
             the House of Representatives, which led to a scandal. The end result of this scandal was
             that in 1911 Lundin was kicked out of the House and an Amendment to the Constitution
             was written calling for the direct election of senators.
             Crime as well as criminals simply emerged from the immigrant population. Since the
             immigrant population was loyal to its own kind and never really complained about
             corruption, social workers did not bother with hard crime such as shakedowns and
             racketeering. They were more concerned with the moral crime of not helping those who
             One cannot say because of this corrupt politician and other criminals like Al Capone
             that all immigrants were corrupt. However, the immigrants were loyal to their own kind.
             All the groups of immigrants lived in their own community separate from the other
             immigrants. There were not too many attempts made to bring the people from various
             lands together either. Jane Addams&
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