Las Vegas has always been associated with the mob. The association between Las Vegas and the mob started due to the “Great Migration” which traveled through Ellis Island from 1880 to 1924. This migration was made up of Slavic Jews and Italians moving to eastern cities. Because of discrimination, many of the people who migrated to the eastern cities could only get low-paying jobs. As a result many of them turned to gambling and became mobsters. A friend of mobster Al Capone’s, more »