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Sources

http://history1900s.about.com/od/people/a/Al-Capone.htm

http://www.history.com/topics/al-capone

During Prohibition

During the 1920s Al Capone and Johnny Torrio moved to Chicago, Illinois, where they began a bootlegging business, due to the recently enacted prohibition laws.

But the Chicago mayor declared he would try to rid Chicago of all crime, so they moved operations to the smaller town outside of Chicago, of Cicero

Al Capone

The Capone Family

Al Capone soon met his new found lover and soon to be wife, Mary Coughlin. She birthed his one and only child, Albert "Sonny" Capone

Growing Up

During his younger years, Al Capone joined two New York street gangs, first the South Brooklyn Rippers, then later he joined the Five Points Juniors.

Late Teens

Al Capone worked as a Waiter, Bartender and Bouncer at the Harvard Inn when he was 18. Working for brutal mobster Frankie Yale.

While working at the Harvard Inn

he told a girl her posterior lookd

good, then her brother cut Al's

face 3 times, giving him the

nickname "Scarface"

Birth

Born in 1899 as Alphonse Gabriel Capone, Al Capone was born to immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York, who were very poor.

Prison Sentance/ Death

Capone was sentanced to 11 years in the newly built Alcatraz prison, got out on parole, and then died on cardiac arrest after a stroke in his Miami mansion in 1947.

Saint Valentines Day Massecre

On Valentines Day, 2/14/1929, Al Capone targeted Bugs Moran, a long-time rival of his in the bootlegging operations. but instead, Capones top hitman, Jack McGurn, went and killed several of Morans men.

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