City News Bureau of Chicago service reported on the scores of most high-school games in Chicago, but otherwise there was no sports coverage. The film "Call Northside 777", in which James Stewart plays a reporter whose articles free an innocent man from prison, was based on a story that originated at the City News Bureau. The City News Bureau broke the story of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929, but, for once, didn't quite believe its reporter, Walter Spirko, and sent the following bulletin: Spirko continued as a Chicago reporter for many years, breaking a story of thieving policemen known as the Summerdale police
Saint Valentine's Day Massacre Capone had been vying for control of the lucrative Chicago bootlegging trade, and Bugs Moran had been moving in on several of Capone's enterprises. Moran was muscling in on a Capone-run dog track in the Chicago suburbs and he had taken over several saloons that were run by Capone, insisting they were in his territory. The plan was to lure Bugs Moran to the SMC Cartage warehouse on North Clark Street on February 14, 1929. The intent was to kill Moran, and perhaps two or three of his lieutenants. It is usually assumed that the North Siders were lured to