fleeing the prohibition laws. United States Alabama Phenix City, was notorious during the 1940s and 1950s for being a haven for organized crime, prostitution, and gambling. Many of its customers came from the United States Army training center at Fort Benning, Georgia. Florida Miami, during the 1970s and 1980s (organized crime, drug trafficking, gangs, strip clubs, clubbing, drinking, police corruption, prostitution, brothels and political corruption) Illinois Chicago in the 1920s to 1930s (prostitution, bootlegging, cabarets, speakeasies, illegal gambling, bank robberies, police corruption, political corruption, organized crime, and gang activity) Indiana Michigan City was considered Sin City in the 1980-1990s, with the proliferation of massage parlors. Terre Haute was labeled Sin City by the monthly magazine Stag in 1955. (reputation for being "wide open", with gambling and a well-developed "red light district"). Now the federal death row is in Terre Haute at the Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex. Kentucky Covington, Kentucky (brothels, gambling, organized crime) Newport, Kentucky (brothels, gambling, organized crime) Massachusetts Boston, Massachusetts, from the early-1960s to the early-1990s recession years, known for the Scollay Square burlesque district and the Combat Zone adult entertainment district, Suffolk Downs on the Revere city line, notorious housing projects, the largest policy racket in the United States, loan shark offices at Bennington and Brooks streets in the East Boston district, and rowdy Irish pubs aligned along West Broadway and Dorchester streets in the South Boston district. Lynn, Massachusetts, during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, known for its famous rhyme, "Lynn, Lynn, the city of sin, you never come out the way you go in. Louisiana New Orleans from 1897 through 1917, Storyville district (prostitution, brothels, gambling, and speakeasies) New York New York City in the mid to late 19th Century and 20th century (prostitution, brothels, illegal gambling, notorious slums, pickpocketing, police corruption, political corruption, drugs, gangs, organized crime), Times Square from the mid-1960s until circa 1990 (prostitution, pornography, go-go bars, sex shops, sex shows, squeegee men, strip clubs, clubbing, drugs, organized crime) Utica, in the 1930s through the 1950s for the extent of its corruption and control from political machines, presence of organized crime. Texas Galveston in the 1920s to 1957 (prostitution, organized crime, gambling, speakeasies, drinking, police corruption, political corruption) See also Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Sodom and Gomorrah Red-light district Sin City (film) Gotham City References External links Top 10: Sin Cities (at AskMen) Drinking culture Drug culture English-language idioms Gambling