Synopsis

Chicago, October 1932. The Great Depression had sunk the city into a chasm of unemployment and want. For some, the lottery and punch-boards offered the faintest glimmer of escape, a temporary reprieve from their hardship. The criminal element recognized this desperation as an opportunity, devising a numbers game to prey upon it. Participants chose a number from 0 to 999, their chances of winning a meager one in a thousand, yet the prize stood at sixty to one. The countless individuals who lost t