Al Capone's Accomplishments

Do you know how difficult it is to be named public enemy number one? Well it is pretty difficult unless you were the famous 1920’s gangster Al Capone. Capone earned that title while bedridden in Florida for a crime that happened in Chicago. Though he is hands down the most popular gangster of all time.He had a normal early life, then he went on to join gangs, he then started to run many operations with the gangs, the St. Valentines massacre, and a just prison sentence. What many don’t know about him though is that his childhood didn’t show any signs that he would become the most famous gangster of all time. Al Capone had a pretty average childhood. Born in Brooklyn on January 17 1899, he was the son of two Italian immigrants. He was a good

They became pretty good friends. Though in 1909 Johnny left Chicago and Capone yet they still remained friends. Capone moved on with his life and got a job at a munitions factory. There were a few small street gangs that he was in but they were all pretty boring with no real action. Then Johnny introduced Capone to his friend and gangster Frankie Yale. Yale then decided to get Capone a job as a bartender at the Harvard Inn. This job is where he would receive his nickname scarface when he made an indecent comment to a lady and her brother cut him across the face leaving 3 scars. He then married Mae Coughlin at the age of 19 after having a child a few weeks

He advised Capone to lay low and not bring public attention to the business now that he was the owner of it. Completely ignoring his advice Capone moved the operations to a suite in the Metropole Hotel in downtown Chicago. He lived an extremely rich life with all of the newspapers estimating he was bringing in 100 million a year. The people loved him because he was very public and was seen as a “Robin Hood” figure because of his liquor business. Throughout time his popularity shrunk as his name was being linked with more and more violence. One day people spotted two of Capone's biggest enemies conversing with each other. Capone ordered a hit to kill them both. They killed both of his enemies plus the “Hanging Prosecutor”. The “Hanging Prosecutor” was trying to prosecute him for previous murders and were talking to Capone's enemies at the time. After that the city of Chicago got sick of all the gang violence in their city. The police raided his businesses to try and find some evidence to get him locked up. The only thing they found against him has evidence of tax evasion. This worried Capone and he called a peace meeting between the cities