Readers Become Eyewitnesses to History in America’s Gritty, and Windy “First City”

Chicago is famous for many things, great food, an unmatched political machine, President Barack Obama, former Governor Rod Blagojevich and organized crime.
We’re not talking about Elliot Ness or Al Capone but the men who wear blue, the Chicago Police Department. Verne Elliot Glassman’s Tell All Book, The Other Chicago Mob looks at the inner workings of the Chicago Police Department over a twenty year span from 1966 to 1988 through the eyes of Gary Cohen, a former Chicago cop, who breaks the code of silence to expose a massive cover-up of organized criminal activity of the city’s police department. There is an adage spoken by cops and mob alike, “how did the fish get caught? He opened his mouth. We are telling the true stories and not holding back, let the chips fall where they may.

Glassman takes the reader on a riveting ride through the first hand recounting by Cohen utilizing historical events such as the 1968 Democratic Convention as backdrops and retells the story of how the Chicago Police Department played an unthinkable role still denied today. For the first time we hear of those seismic days told from the Police side and learn what they were told was to happen prior to the 68’ Convention, preparations and how it became a self fulfilling prophecy. There’s a saying among cops,” It’s better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.” This “do or die” philosophy for better or worse was what the life of a cop in Chicago was. The Other Chicago Mob is a compelling and thought-provoking work that sets the record straight and marks the passage of one man from a thief and street cop to the man he is today. Make his story yours.