Editing History of Pittsburgh (section)

===Prohibition===
During the [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition era]], 1920 to 1933, Pittsburgh was a hotbed of bootlegging and illicit alcohol consumption.<ref>{{cite web | last =McGee | first =Chris | title =Prohibition's Failure in Pittsburgh | work =The Sloping Halls Review, Volume 1, 1994 | publisher =[[Carnegie Mellon University]] | year =1994 | url =http://repository.cmu.edu/shr/5/ |access-date=December 8, 2013}}</ref><ref name=ended>{{cite news |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/life/2013/12/05/Hic-hic-hooray/stories/201312050249 |title=Prohibition ended 80 years ago today, but the dry movement never worked here |date=December 4, 2013 |access-date=February 10, 2014 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette}}</ref> Several factors fed into resistance to Prohibition, including a large immigrant population, anti-establishment animosity dating to the [[Whiskey Rebellion]], fragmented local government, and pervasive corruption.<ref name=ended /> The [[Pittsburgh crime family]] controlled significant portions of the illegal alcohol trade.

During that time, Prohibition Administrator John Pennington and his federal agents engaged in 15,000 raids, arrested over 18,000 people and closed down over 3,000 distilleries, 16 regular breweries, and 400 'wildcat' breweries.<ref name=ended /><ref>{{cite journal | last =Comte | first =Julien | title ="Let the Federal Men Raid": Bootlegging and Prohibition Enforcement in Pittsburgh | journal =Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies | publisher =[[Project MUSE]] | date =Spring 2010 | volume =77 | issue =2 | pages =166–192 | doi =10.1353/pnh.0.0021 | s2cid =143698372 | url =http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pnh/summary/v077/77.2.comte.html |access-date=December 7, 2013}}</ref> Even the term "[[Speakeasy]]", meaning an illegal drinking establishment, is said to have been coined at the Blind Pig in nearby [[McKeesport, Pennsylvania]].<ref name=ended /><ref>{{cite news | title =Munch goes to the Blind Pig | newspaper =[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] | date =June 30, 2011  | url =http://www.post-gazette.com/munch/2011/06/30/Munch-goes-to-the-Blind-Pig/stories/201106300295 | access-date =December 7, 2013 }}</ref>

The last distillery in Pittsburgh, Joseph S. Finch's distillery, located at South Second and McKean streets, closed in the 1920s.<ref name=first>{{cite news| last =Toland | first =Bill | title =Pittsburgh gets its first distillery since before Prohibition | newspaper =[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] | date =March 29, 2012 | url =http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sectionfront/life/pittsburgh-gets-its-first-distillery-since-before-prohibition-298761/?p=0 |access-date=June 12, 2012}}</ref> In 2012, [[Wigle Whiskey]] opened, becoming the first since the closure of Finch's distillery.<ref name=first />

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette produced a large web feature on this period in the city's history.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/prohibition/|title=Pittsburgh:The Dark Years|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette| author=Mellon, Steve|access-date=3 June 2014 }}</ref>