Chicago Strip Clubs: Still developing

In the summer of 1981, Mazola and neighborhood resident Oscar DAngelo, the so-called Mayor of Little Italy, collaborated with local merchants and nearby institutions and co-founded the University Village Association. Its a nonprofit group focused on broadly improving local stability by assisting in the economic residential development in the neighborhood. Mazola was its first president.
Almost a decade later, when Fred Roti, the alderman of the 1st Ward, was indicted in the federal governments Operation Gambat investigation for racketeering and extortion in 1990, Mazola ran for the job and took 57 percent of the vote, in a competitive field of five candidates.
Being an Italian from the 1st Ward following Roti, the first day I was in office a guy came to me talking about a nightclub on Lake Street. I say, are you talking about a strip club? It was my first day in office. I said, get out of here, he recalls.

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