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Since the end of the cowboy times gangsters have ruled the crime of cities. They don’t do the bank robbing that the cowboys did. Gangsters get more into the business of selling things people desire. They sold drugs, alcohol, and women. They sold alcohol, prohibition made that illegal, so people would buy alcohol if someone would sell it. Al Capone took advantage of prohibition in Chicago, and made a killing off of it. Al Capone, one of the most known gangsters in the world started to control part of the criminal activity after Johnny Torrio fled the country. He quickly rose to power and took control of his whole gang. He then started taking out other gangs to control the whole racket, so he could make the most money possible. January 17, …show more content…

He killed two men, but no one ever said they heard or saw it, so Capone never got tried in court. He kept up his violence by, beating up a rival gang member and sending him to the hospital. After sending him to the hospital the police looked for someone with his description, so Yale sent him to Chicago to wait till things settled down there in Brooklyn ("History Files - Al Capone, 1999"). Yale didn't just send him there to have nothing to do. Once Capone got to Chicago he helped with a big brothel business. Capone later moved his family to Chicago and they lived in a tiny nice house (“Al Capone | biography - American gangster”). Capone now working for Yale’s old mentor John Torrio. (Yale actually murdered Big Jim Colosimo the boss of Torrio. He murdered him so Torrio could take over.) Torrio took advantage of Capones strength and intelligence, and introduced him to the bootlegging business. Soon after this Capone started helping Torrio manage the business ("History Files - Al Capone, 1999"). Prohibition just started around this time and brought in a lot of money to anyone in the game. Torrio and Capone killed the leader of a rival gang named Dion O'Bannion. In return two of O'Bannion’s associates tried to kill Torrio, but failed the attack.After all that they'd gone through Capone had taken a full partnership in the brothels, prostitution, …show more content…

The men in the gang already liked Capone and had a nickname for him “The Big Yellow Fellow”. When starting out he proved to his men that he organized crime a lot better than his mentor Torrio did. He expanded what the gang did by even more. They now got in the businesses of speakeasies, bookie joints, gambling houses, brothels, horse and race tracks, nightclubs, distilleries and breweries. With all of these businesses that the gang had a part in they brought in one hundred million dollars a year ("History Files - Al Capone, 1999"). He made his business bigger and others smaller by killing rival gang members. After sending some of his gunmen to kill some rival gang members. They got the wrong guy, Al Capone went into hiding for three months. Capone didn't get charged with this murder either. In 1927 he had thought to have somewhere close to one hundred million dollars (“Al Capone | biography - American gangster”). After doing business the whole time with Capone, William Hale Thompson, the mayor of Chicago decided that he wanted Capone out of Chicago. Capone made Thompson look bad politically. Thompson took action and hired a new police chief, and told him to run Al Capone out of Chicago for good ("History Files - Al Capone, 1999"). The Saint Valentines Day Massacre, one of the most ruthless things Al Capone ever planned. It happened on the North Side of Chicago in a Garage on

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Al Capone also known as Scarface was a 1920’s mob boss in the city of Chicago, Illinois. He came from a family of Italian immigrants and he was raised in New York City. Capone was part of a gang in New York until he got a invitation from Tarrio in 1920 to come to Chicago and join his mafia. But in 1925 Tarrio was almost killed in a shootout with a rival gang so he steps down from mob boss and hands the mafia to Capone. Once Al became the boss he started to sell whiskey which at the time was illegal because of Prohibition.

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Police are doubling their efforts in order to put an end to organised crime, and the underground empire these mobsters have created. Al Capone's bootlegging, and other criminal activities are estimated to make him over 100 million dollars a year,“His underground empire has its tentacles in almost every illegal activity possible” said one officer we interviewed. “Al Capone is by far the most powerful man in chicago” says one citizen we interviewed another said “if Al wants you to disappear your gonna disappear”. With the prohibition act of 1919 mobsters have making

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He grew up living a normal life in Brooklyn, New York unlike other gangsters who lived in poverty but lived in a slum. Living in a ethnically diverse area exposed a young Capone to the different cultures. Still though it was a tough area, where he had to become a man quicker than needed be. His family was the stereotypical italian american family, abiding laws and good working jobs. There really weren’t any big indicators that he would become involved in a life of crime ,and be a target for the rest of his life.

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“For Capone, dubbed “Public Enemy No.1” in June by the Chicago Crime Commission, 1931 was pivotal. That year, the gangster chieftain was put on trial and convicted, not of murder and mayhem, but evading $182,000 in taxes on income of $915,000 for the years 1925, 1926 and 1927”(Chicago Tribune 1). The reason why Capone didn’t turn in his taxes was because the tax collectors would have to ask him how he acquired all of his money. If he would have told them he would have already gone to jail right away so he instead tried to wait it out as long as possible. Though many believed that this man would be put to jail after all those villainous crimes such as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre he instead gets caught and sent to prison for tax evasion.

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Capone was known to have a short temper and to be violent. Capone showed this violence such as when he was in the sixth grade; Capone was hit by teacher and he reacted by striking his teacher back, after that Capone never went back to school. Capone first joined a gang when he was 11 years old, he joined an adult gang four years later which was called "Five Points Gang" where he met the leader

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Later Torrio left the gang and now Capone was in charge, he was more organized than Torrio in the gang. After, he got involved with the St. Valentine's day massacre killing the Moran’s gang members to destroy the Moran’s gang. Later was in jail from a tax evasion from hundred million dollars was a evaded. These were the reasons why Al Capone was a villain and was a criminal in the U.S. Al Capone was born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York as an immigrant.

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After being kicked out he eventually found Johnny Torrio who would change Al Capone’s life forever. He helped Jonny run drugs to woman to anything illegal. During one of his escapades Capone met another gangster who was from the opposite side of town who cut Capone’s left cheek and left a long scar. Which eventually he got his name Scarface. Torrio Eventually moved to Chicago to run a whorehouse in 1909.

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Al Capone was born in Brooklyn New York in 1899. He was born to poor immigrant parents. Al Capone went on to be the most infamous gangster in history. He was the fourth of seven sons and two daughters. He was one of the most feared mob bosses.

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He had so much power over the law enforcement and people. Capone paid off about every officer that knew he was doing illegal things to make his money and provide for his

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Capone was one of both the smartest, and most violent criminal that Chicago, or even the entire country has ever seen. American Decades writes, “During the roaring twenties Capone controlled a multi-million dollar crime organization in Chicago. He gained national recognition for his ruthless business skills and casual use of violence to build his criminal empire.” (“Al Capone” American Decades, 1) Due to his finely tuned skills for running crime, most likely inherited from his mentor Torrio, Capone was able to rise to unbelievable fame.

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“One day, Capone’s teacher hit him for insolence and he struck back” (History). At that moment, Capone quit school and his family moved to a new house. While at the new neighborhood, he meet his mentor, Jack Torrio. Jack was running a gambling business near the Capone’s

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Besides most other gangsters Al Capone was born into a poor Italy immigrant family. His father was a well respected Italian barber. After getting expelled at the age of 14 for hitting a female teacher he never went back to school (http://www.biography.com/people/al-capone-9237536#early-life). Even though he never finished the sixth grade Al Capone was very intelligent and by the age twenty-six he was running Chicago’s criminal underworld. He began his career under the wing of criminal boss Johnny Torrio

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Public Enemy No. 1 Jordyn Pressley 3rd Block Alphonse Capone is probably a name that rings a bell for most of you. He was a brutal gang leader who lived in the 1900’s Chicago scene. Yet despite all of his heinous crimes, he still managed to slip under the radar of the police force for a long time. The people of “The Windy City” actually liked him and looked up to him, trusting him to help them in the times of prohibition and especially the Great Depression. Capone was a wolf in sheep's clothing who knew how to cover his tracks.

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Torrios death was very beneficial to Capones power because, “Capone was now one of the most powerful mob leaders in Chicago” (McGill). In 1920 Capone was making up to sixty million dollars a year, where the salary of an average citizen was around three thousand dollars. Capone’s success drove him to strive for a good public image; he would attend charity events and helped keep peace against other mobsters, “In the public's eye, he was a quiet man and always well dressed,” which led the public to see Capones generosity (McGill). However, this did not stop his consistent criminal activity, which continued even after he announced his retirement in

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He started his bootleg business very young, he started to build up his business to become more successful This did cause some of his men to die or get injured very bad. Al Capone and his men did not cooperate with the police. But they did not care Al Capone was the best man there was in there eyes. They also did not want to get on his bad side. If they did they were destined to die.

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