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Theodore 'Teddy' Roe (policy enterprise)

CTL-E-1376 · Business · other · 1940s-August 4, 1952

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

The last Black policy boss of Chicago's South Side (1940s-1952), who refused the Chicago Outfit's takeover demands and was murdered August 4, 1952 outside his home at 5239 S. Michigan Avenue. His 81-car funeral procession was the largest for a Black Chicagoan since Jack Johnson's in 1946 — a measure of the policy economy's place in community life.

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Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from ECON-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-ECON-001:ECON-062; source research type(s): business.

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