The Chicago Outfit, also known as the Outfit, the Chicago Mafia, the Chicago Mob, the Chicago crime family, the South Side Gang or the Organization, is an Italian American Mafia crime family based in
Alphonse Gabriel Capone, sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicag
Chicago Outfit
…Chicago area, originating in the city's South Side in the early 1910s. The Outfit rose to power in the 1920s under the control of Johnny Torrio and Al Capone, and the period was marked by bloody gang wars for control of the distribution of illegal alcohol during Prohibition. The Outfit's power was solidified…
Capone in 1930
Capone with his mother
Capone home, a two-story building, Chicago, Illinois, 1929
Unemployed men outside a soup kitchen opened by Capone in Chicago during the Great Depression, February 1931