Guarded By A Corrupt Government Cincinnati Gamblers Lost Fortunes At Bucket Shops

Cincinnati has always tolerated gambling. “Chasing the tiger,” as it used to be known, ebbed and surged in popularity over the years, but placing bets has never faded away. For most of Cincinnati’s history gambling was outlawed yet the laws prohibiting gambling were often entirely ignored.Especially in the Boss Cox years from the 1880s into the 1920s, gambling prospered because wagers funneled a torrent of bribes, kickbacks and graft into the coffers of the Cox machine. Today’s gamblers would...