The McSwiggin murder was the kind of story that editors once thought sold newspapers. The Tribune laid out the initial facts in a front-page story on April 28, 1926: “William H. McSwiggin, youthful assistant state’s attorney, who was known as the ‘hanging prosecutor’ because of his success in the conduct of murder trials, was shot … Continue reading At the dawn of the Al Capone era, prosecutor William McSwiggin was killed in a hail of machine gun bullets outside a Cicero tavern