In the song "The night Chicago Died" was...?

Question

Momma crying cause daddy was a cop?
and
did the police really lose to al capone?
and did 100 cops really die?

Answer 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIrcSXqzZzY

Momma cried because there was a big riot going on and her husband was a cop - she was worried about him.
And no, it's a work of fiction.

"Its about fictional gang shootout in Chicago between gangsters tied to Al Capone and the Chicago Police. ... The narrator retells his mother's anguish in awaiting news of the fate of her husband, a Chicago policeman".

Further noted: "Many of the discrepancies can be attributed to the fact that the songwriters do not hail from Chicago, but from England, and admitted in interviews - most notably on Beat Club shortly after the song's release - that they had never even been to the city itself, and that their sole knowledge of the city and that period of its history had been based on gangster films. When Paper Lace sent this song to Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, he was not impressed, shunning the fictionalized story, saying that the group was nuts."
-wikipedia

Answer 2

i doubt it