Al Capone's Accomplishments

During the roaring twenties the notorious mobster Al Capone or “Scarface” dominated the chaotic city of Chicago, he surpassed all his rivals and he was acknowledged as the most fearsome and powerful mobster that has terrorized the city. During his prime Al Capone have gather more than 1,000 members in his gang, accumulated more than $100millions as his personal income and he was able to claimed that he “owned” Chicago. Al Capone was one of the most well-known and villainous crime lords that ever existed, but how did Al Capone become such an infamous figure? Al Capone’s family settled in New York during the late nineteen centuries, The Capones were poor immigrants originated from Italy, they moved into a poor Brooklyn tenement where Al

The family was a regular law-following Italian Americans, there were few indications that Al would have become public enemy number one, but as soon they moved into more of a ethnically mixed community Al was then expose to more cultural influence which lead him down to the road of a crime lord, by the time that he was eleven Al Capone already have surrounded himself with other dangerous hoodlums, he was a member of a junior gang that taught its members the art of vandalism and street boxing (The Life and times of Al Capone by Tom Stockdale pg9). Al Capone later become closer with crime organization like the Five Point Gang and brought attention from the fearsome member Frank Yale (The Life and times of Al Capone by Tom Stockdale pg9). Beside the environment around Al it was his schooling that set him on his path to becoming a crime figure. Al

With trusted followers and supreme power Al Capone claimed the city of Chicago, anyone who opposed him were destroy and crushed, for example Al Capone elaborated plan out a trap for his two rivals- John Scalise and Albert Anselmi, Capone invited them into a banquet and when its climax of the evening, Capone eliminated both of them by bashing their brains out (. Al Capone also have posed a good public image of himself, which made him into more of a infamous figure, Capone always dressed smart and fancy, he set out a image of a wealth businessman and pillar of the community. As for his crimes, Capone was always ahead of everything, he left no evidences that can be use for him to be charge with. ("Al Capone." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television), (Sifakis, Carl. "Capone, Al." Encyclopedia of American Crime, Second Edition