Al Capone, smoking a cigar, listens as his attorney Abe Teitelbaum explains the legal phases of the government’s $201,347 tax case against the Chicago gangster at the Internal Revenue Offices in ...

Al Capone is one of the most notorious gangsters in world history and started his crime spree very young. According to the FBI, the gangster became a member of the street gang after quitting school.

American Stories profiles Al Capone, the Prohibition-era face of organized crime. Hailed as an anti-hero, feared as a cold-blooded crime lord, Al Capone’s bootlegging exploits, celebrity and ...

Al Capone, the infamous gangster who had set up shop in Cicero, quickly became a prime suspect but initially was nowhere to be found. Upon surfacing, he was arrested but denied having it in for ...

Al Capone (1899-1947), American gangster, 17 June 1931. 'Al Capone sent to prison. ... One of the victims, alleged contract killer Frank Gusenberg, survived long enough to allegedly tell police, ...

In 1947, gangster Al "Scarface" Capone died at age 48 after suffering from syphilis. In 1959, the first scheduled transcontinental passenger jet flight took place , a non-stop American Airlines ...

The ABC7 I-Team examined the Tommy guns from the St. Valentine's Day massacre of seven Bugs Moran gang members, ordered by Al Capone, in Lincoln Park.

Prohibition-era gangster Al Capone, the organized crime boss who is suspected of being behind the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929, was surprisingly never convicted of a violent crime, despite the ...

1986: Geraldo hosted “The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults” deep inside the former Lexington Hotel in Chicago. Spoiler alert: There weren’t any jewels, money or cars inside — just a few old ...

He called it Sweetheart, a Colt 1911 .45 semi-automatic pistol that gangster Al Capone always carried with him for protection. He said the gun saved his life many times. It was left to his wife ...

On Jan. 25, 1947, gangster Al "Scarface" Capone died at age 48 after suffering from syphilis. On Jan. 25, ... was executed in Iraq for his role in a poison-gas attack in which 5,000 Kurds were killed.

The McSwiggin murder was the kind of story that editors once thought sold newspapers. The Tribune laid out the initial facts in a front-page story on April 28, 1926: “William H. McSwiggin ...