The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang on Saint Valentine's Day 1929. The men were gathered at a Lincoln Park, Chicago, garage w
Scene of the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
Police inspect the equipment used in a clandestine brewery after a raid
Bugs Moran, 1929
Police photograph of Capone, 1930
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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
Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
…Moran, although he had not arrived by the time the attack started. The North Siders were rivals of the Chicago Outfit, a criminal organization headed by Al Capone, and much of the speculation has focused on whether he was behind the murders. The police, the Illinois Attorney General's office, and the coroner's…
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