"Chicago typewriter" meaning in English

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          "text": "Few arrests were made and the city was alive to the sound of screeching tyres, the chatter of the Chicago typewriter or Tommy gun (which was invented just too late for the First World War but just in time for Capone & Co) and the music of the speakeasies and juke joints.",
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          "word": "trench broom"
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