Chicago & Al Capone

Al Capone is argueably one of America's best known gangsters. During the prohibition era of the 1920's, Capone played a leading role in the illegal activities that labeled Chicago as a city of lawlessness. Al Capone was born January 17, 1899 and although he was intellegent, he quit school at the age of fourteen. He eventually became a member of the notorious Five Points gang in Manhattan and worked in gangster Frankie Yale's Brooklyn dive, the Harvard Inn.
While working at the Harvard Inn as a bouncer and bartender he recieved his infamous facial scars that eventually give him the nickname "Scarface." He recieved these wounds after insulting a patron and ultimatly was attacked by her brother who sliced his face with a knife.
Al Capone first arrest was for disorderly conduct and he was also investigated for murdering two men while in New York, but the charges never panned out. He was sent back to Chicago where he went to work for Yale's old mentor John Torrio. Torrio reconized Capone's potential and soon Capone was helping manage Torrio's bootlegging business. By 1922 Capone was Torrio's number two man and soon became a full partner in the saloons, gambling houses, and brothles. This would ultimatly lead to his rise as a mafia powerhouse in the heart of Chicago.