Johnny Torrio
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John Donato Torrio was an Italian-born mobster who helped build the Chicago Outfit in the 1920s later inherited by his protégé Al Capone. Torrio proposed a National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s and la
Torrio in 1939
Torrio in 1903
Torrio following his 1936 arrest for tax evasion
Al Capone
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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
Johnny Torrio
…Italian: ; January 20, 1882 – April 16, 1957) was an Italian-born mobster who helped build the Chicago Outfit in the 1920s later inherited by his protégé Al Capone. Torrio proposed a National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s and later became an adviser to Lucky Luciano and his Luciano crime family. Torrio had several…
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