Al Capone’s vaults inside a decrepit Chicago hotel were embarrassingly empty in 1986. The real riches of the legendary boss of Chicago’s organized crime syndicate have been located more than 2,000 ...

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There's certainly no shortage of interesting stops along the iconic Route 66, but not many can claim to be a favored stop of crime boss Al Capone.

Although the mafia is something that one wouldn’t want to associate with, there’s much curiosity among people to learn about some of the biggest mob crimes. There’s no shortage of movies and TV shows ...

Until last week the official criminal record of Alphonse (“Scarface Al”) Capone of Chicago, foremost U. S. gangster, stood: 1) Held by police for questioning in connection with two murders while a ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Police will reopen the unsolved 1939 murder of the Chicago lawyer who put the finger on gangster Al Capone for tax evasion, a city politician said on Tuesday. The Chicago Police ...

Al Capone’s name has become synonymous with Prohibition-era gang violence. Like many outlaws of the era, he is today romanticized as a mob legend, Capone’s actual climb to the top in 1920s Chicago was ...

A tax evasion charge brings down Al Capone. After the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, federal authorities were set on sending Al Capone to prison. It would be a tax evasion charge that would bring down ...

On this day, June 9, in 1930, Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed by mobsters, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone. It was well known that Lingle courted both sides of ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago authorities designated the head of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel Public Enemy No. 1 on Thursday, a first in Chicago since gangster Al Capone earned the top spot after the ...

Al Capone’s vaults inside a decrepit Chicago hotel were embarrassingly empty in 1986. The real riches of the legendary boss of Chicago’s organized crime syndicate have been located more than 2,000 ...