Capone expanded the bootlegging business through increasingly violent means, but his mutually profitable relationships with Mayor William Hale Thompson and the Chicago Police Department meant he seemed safe from law enforcement.Ĭapone apparently reveled in attention, such as the cheers from spectators when he appeared at baseball games. Torrio went into retirement after North Side gunmen almost killed him, handing control to Capone. A conflict with the North Side Gang was instrumental in Capone's rise and fall. In his early twenties, Capone moved to Chicago and became a bodyguard and trusted factotum for Johnny Torrio, head of a criminal syndicate that illegally supplied alcohol-the forerunner of the Outfit-and was politically protected through the Unione Siciliana. He joined the Five Points Gang as a teenager and became a bouncer in organized crime premises such as brothels. His seven-year reign as a crime boss ended when he went to prison at the age of 33.Ĭapone was born in New York City in 1899 to Italian immigrants.
Alphonse Gabriel Capone ( / k ə ˈ p oʊ n/ January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), 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 Chicago Outfit.
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