In what city did the following happen: "There was shouting in the street, and the sound of running feet, and I asked someone who said, 'bout a hundred cops are dead"?

george48

Chicago, from the group Paper Lace in their song 'The Night Chicago Died.' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Chicago_Died Aug 31 10, 11:33 AM

star_gazer

While the song is entirely fictional, probably the most notable contemporary real-life event in Chicago resembling a massive shoot-out involving Capone's forces as depicted by the lyrics would be the famous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929, an encounter between Capone's men and a rival Chicago gang rather than the police, and it took place on the city's North Side in February instead of "in the heat of a summer night." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Chicago_Died Aug 31 10, 2:38 PM