Alfred "Jake" Lingle was an American reporter for the Chicago Tribune.
12 Facts About Jake Lingle
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Jake Lingle was shot dead gangland-style in the underpass leading to the Illinois Central Randolph Street station on the afternoon on June 9,1930, as dozens of people watched.
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Jake Lingle was born on July 2,1891, and raised on the West Side of Chicago.
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Jake Lingle received an education up to the eighth grade at John Calhoun North Elementary.
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Jake Lingle was known for his work as a legman covering gang-related crime stories.
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Jake Lingle reported from the scene by telephone to a writer at the Chicago Tribune office and then that person would write up his story.
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In Chicago, on the afternoon of June 9,1930, Jake Lingle left the Sherman House Hotel, where he had conversed with some power brokers, to catch the 1:30 pm train to a racetrack in Homewood where he gambled on horses.
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Jake Lingle's death brought to the public's attention his connections with gangsters.
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Jake Lingle turned out to have been setting the price of beer in Chicago and involved in organized dog racing and gambling.
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Jake Lingle had maintained two homes plus a suite at the Morrison Hotel and had a six-figure stockbroker account.
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Jake Lingle initially been considered a martyr, and an immense crowd attended his funeral in the West Jackson Boulevard District, with mourners overflowing onto the street outside the Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica.
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In 1959, the Jake Lingle murder was dramatized on a television episode of The Untouchables titled "The Jake Lingle Killing," in which Lingle is portrayed by Herb Vigran.