Down the Drain color-orange “Modern Love” and “Black History

“Modern Love” and “Black History

Just before The Times moved from its West 43rd Street headquarters to a new building two blocks away in 2007

and a smattering of banks

its eighth-straight losing season

Down the Drain color-orange “Modern Love” and “Black HistoryYou can almos+C702t imagine federal agents telling bootleggers, "If you have tears, prepare to shed them now," as they pour 350,000 gallons of illegal liquor into the Chicago River. The agents seized the barrels of wine, beer and whiskey in raids in and around Chicago on April 6, 1922. The 18th Amendment was ratified in 1919, prohibiting the production, sale and distribution of alcohol. The Prohibition Era lasted until Dec. 5, 1933. Federal agents