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Mike was known as "the Devil" for his explosive nature. Mike, Sam and Peter Genna all lived together at 750 West taylor street in a three story building. The Gennas were the kings of corn sugar alcohol. They had the grip on distilling and selling it. They made their fortunes by hiring newly arrived countrymen into distilling alcohol with makeshift stills set up in each tenement room. Mike Genna, along with enforcers Albert Anselmi and John Scalise once had a shootout with Bugs Moran and Vincent Drucci at Congress and Morgan streets during the Genna-North Side Gang war.

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  • Mike Genna
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  • Mike was known as "the Devil" for his explosive nature. Mike, Sam and Peter Genna all lived together at 750 West taylor street in a three story building. The Gennas were the kings of corn sugar alcohol. They had the grip on distilling and selling it. They made their fortunes by hiring newly arrived countrymen into distilling alcohol with makeshift stills set up in each tenement room. Mike Genna, along with enforcers Albert Anselmi and John Scalise once had a shootout with Bugs Moran and Vincent Drucci at Congress and Morgan streets during the Genna-North Side Gang war.
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  • Mike was known as "the Devil" for his explosive nature. Mike, Sam and Peter Genna all lived together at 750 West taylor street in a three story building. The Gennas were the kings of corn sugar alcohol. They had the grip on distilling and selling it. They made their fortunes by hiring newly arrived countrymen into distilling alcohol with makeshift stills set up in each tenement room. Mike Genna, along with enforcers Albert Anselmi and John Scalise once had a shootout with Bugs Moran and Vincent Drucci at Congress and Morgan streets during the Genna-North Side Gang war. Genna was fatally wounded in a gunfight with Chicago Police detectives on June 13, 1925, at 59th Street and Western Avenue after engaging in a shootout with them along with his fellow gangsters Anselmi and Scalise, and killed two officers- Genna took a bullet to the leg which severed an artery; he bled to death in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, but not before delivering a kick to the face and some verbal insults to one of the officers. Although the family planned a lavish send off for him, Mike Genna's funeral was quick and quiet because of the two policeman killed in the shootout with him. Police put the word out that they would arrest any gangsters attending. No gangster wanted to be seen or identified at his wake and connected with the crime.
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