The Al Capone Museum is the most comprehensive, historical journey on Al Capone and Chicago during the nineteen 20's and 30's. The Al Capone Museum will take you back to Chicago during the Roaring Twenties, a pictorial journey back in time, including information on the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, the Southside Gang, the Northside Gang, the Lexington Hotel, Al Capone, Johnny Torrio, Frankie Yale, Frank Nitti, Jim Colosimo, Hymie Weiss, Dean O'Banion, Bugs Moran, Jack Zuta, Joe E. Lewis, Alcatraz, and much more.
The Al Capone Museum Designer/Developer, Diane Tremblay.
Alphonse Capone was made to be as big as he was by many things. Could it be he was as ruthless as they say? Did pop culture have something to do with building up his image?
Al Capone had made it big when the Great Depression rolled around. Capone was a bootlegger, supplying liquor to people who wanted it. This included judges, police, and highly-placed people who demanded the best. But the bootlegging business also included death as a strategy for survival. The other players, the opponents, were also in the same game and abided by those rules. They were gangsters of the Roaring Twentieswell-dressed men who lived fast and dangerously.
On April 23, 1930, the Chicago Crime Commission issued its first Public Enemies
List with 28 names on it. At the peak of his power, Al Capone was first on the
list and became the city's "Public Enemy Number One." But as 1930
drew to a close, Chicago and cities across America were being seriously affected
by the deepening Depression. Someone had to pay for all those years of high-living
of the Roaring Twenties, and the high-profile man-of-choice for the downfall
was to be Al Capone.
The Al Capone Museum is the most comprehensive site on the Big Guy and the times.
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