Born Jacob Rubenstien. It’s a twist of fate that the Chicago Outfit’s assault on the city’s labor union in the late 1930s would be the eventual cause of driving Jack Ruby out of Chicago’s west side, to Dallas Texas, and into infamy. Chicago’s crowded West Side—it had 50,000 residents per square mile when Jack Ruby was a boy there—was home to some of Ch…
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