Tribune reporter shot dead in the Randolph Street underpass; his paper offers $25,000 for the killer

By the afternoon of June 9, 1930, Jake Lingle was one of the most connected men in Chicago — a Tribune legman who earned $65 a week but kept more than $60,000 in the bank. He left the Sherman House Hotel headed for a racetrack in Homewood, walking through the underpass at the Illinois Central Randolph Street station, when a thin, blue-eyed man raised a .38 caliber pistol and shot him once in the back of the head as dozens of people watched. The Tribune offered a $25,000 reward and lionized him as a martyred journalist — until other reporters began uncovering that Lingle had been setting beer prices in Chicago, running gambling operations, and keeping a suite at the Morrison Hotel on a reporter's salary…