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…Al Capone Perhaps the best-known gangster of all time, Al "Scarface" Capone was the most powerful mob boss of his era. He dominated organized crime in the Chicago area from 1925 until 1931, when he was imprisoned for federal income tax evasion…

…Biography of Al Capone Al Capone has been made out to be a different person than he actually was. He was exploited in the wrong ways by the media. Many people think he was born in Italy, which is completely untrue. People have a completely altered image…

…Project paper I picked Al Capone because we share the same last name and everywhere I go I’m asked if there is any relation to him. I belive that Capone paved the way and opened the door for present day orgnizied crime. Al Capone is the best-known…

…Here's the life in the eyes of a famous gangster. Alphonse Capone, or better known as Al Capone, is the worlds' most famous gangster. Al Capone was merciless, rich, successful and powerful. Al Capone was born on January 17, 1899 in Italy in a town…

…. Breweries, smoking, swearing, cheating, gambling, frequenting places called speakeasies which sold alcohol during the Prohibition, brothels and murder were headline news for much of this time for a man by the name of Alphonse (Al) Capone. Al Capone was born…

…Al Capone was an essential player during the prohibition era and is largely responsible for the growth of organized crime (mafia). Involving himself with mob leaders and eventually moving up the chain of power himself, he ruled the majority of business…

…was not difficult to come by. Although he claimed to be in Florida at the time of the murders, Al Capone was, without hesitation, the one and only suspect in this infamous crime. Thanks to prohibition, Capone had become the crime czar of Chicago, running gambling…

…al capone By: ryan Name-Alphonse Capone Background-Along with thousands of other Italians, the Capone family moved to Brooklyn near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It was a new beginning in a New World. The Capone’s were a quiet and conventional family…

…the lack of opportunity in rural Italy. When they came to the large American port cities they often ended up as laborers because of the inability to speak and write English and lack of professional skills. This was not the case with Al Capone's family.Gabriele…

…In January 1899, Gabriel and Theresa Capone were awaiting the birth of their new son, unaware that he would eventually become one of the most notorious gangsters of all time. On the seventeenth of that month, their child Alphonse, later known as Al…