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Capne's Chicago Empire wes a better earner than Ford's
Chicago, also know as the windy city is remembered for its
stockyards and highly successful meatpacking industry which
economic circumstances has now moved out of the city and placed
much further west. Related, but in deeply ironic sense, to the
meatpacking industry was the gangland wars that brought Chicago
great notoriety in the days of prohibition. A government that
made the sale of alcohol unlawful opened up an industry
determined to set out to sell it to those who wanted it, and
there was no shortage of takers!
It was the era of Alphonsus "scar face" Capone who was himself
not a native of Chicago at all. He was born in Brooklyn in New
York in 1899. However, his association with
the city has meant that Chicago and Capone will be linked
throughout the years.
Capone quit school at the age of 12 and then held down a series
of dubious jobs before coming to work for gangland boss, Frankie
Yale. Yale owned a pub of sorts, and it was here that Al worked
as a barman and bouncer. It was also in Yale's bar that earned
his nickname, "scar face". He intimated tat the morals of one of
his lady customer's were not as good as they might have been,
which caused the lady great offence. She called her brother to
eke revenge, and hence the scars. In 1919 Capone moved to
Chicago because of
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growing police pressure in NYC.
There was plenty of room for his talents in the blooming
Business Empire of John Torrio. As prohibition ensured that
there had to be outlets galore for the illegal booze and where
better to serve it than in dubious saloons, gambling houses and
brothels. When Torrio stooped a bullet, it was "scar face"
himself who inherited the business empire. He was if nothing
else a very able business man and soon the gang had earnings in
excess of $100,000,000 per year which exceeded that of the Ford
Motor Company.
However, Capone made an enemy of his one time proponent and
business partner Chicago Mayor, William Hale Thomson. Thomson
hired a new police chief whose job it was to drive the gangland
leader out of the Illinois City. Capone moved to Palm Beach in
Florida, and it was from there he masterminded the notorious
St.Valentine's Day Massacre.
Many wanted to kill Capone but no one succeeded. Instead he was
indicted on income tax evasion charges and sent to prison for 10
years in 1931.He ended up in Alcatraz where he started to
exhibit the symptoms of syphilitic dementia that was later to
kill him.
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