The 1920s were an age of dramatic social and political change. For the first time, more Americans lived in cities than on farms. The nation's total wealth more than doubled between 1920 and 1929, and this economic growth swept many Americans into an affluent but unfamiliar "consumer society." People from coast to coast bought the same goods (thanks to nationwide advertising and the spread of chain stores), listened to the same music, did the same dances and even used the same slang! Many Americans were uncomfortable with this new, urban, sometimes racy "mass culture"; in fact, for many–even most–people in the United States, the 1920s brought more conflict than celebration. However, for a small handful of young people in the nation's big cities, the 1920s were roaring indeed.
During the 1920s, many Americans had extra money to spend, and they spent it on consumer goods such as ready-to-wear clothes and home appliances like electric refrigerators. In particular, they bought radios. The first commercial radio station in the U.S., Pittsburgh's KDKA, hit the airwaves in 1920; three years later there were more than 500 stations in the nation. By the end of the 1920s, there were radios in more than 12 million households. People also went to the movies: Historians estimate that, by the end of the decades, three-quarters of the American population visited a movie theater every week.
However, just when things were looking bright in America, things weren't as easy as it seems in Chicago, there was crime around town. Robberies, gangs, mob wars, mafias. The crime in Chicago was devastating, and the police wasn't much help either as some cops were dirty cops. Lives were lost due to crimes, lives were ruined, and while the fight against crime went on in the Windy City, America was about to go through the hardest years in their Interest
On October 29th, 1929, Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded 16,410,030 shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors, and stock tickers ran hours behind because the machinery could not handle the tremendous volume of trading. In the aftermath of Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression.
Crime worsened, people died, but since June 1934, there has been reports of a child vigilante fighting criminals and mob bosses in the dead of night, cleaning up the streets with his gadgets and utility weapons. Some fear him, but what they don't know is that this vigilante could be the only savior they need in this crime infested town.