Born: January 17, 1899, Brooklyn

Died: January 25, 1947, Palm Island

Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17, 1899 January 25,
1947) was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime
syndicate. The Chicago Outfit, which subsequently became known as
the "Capones," was dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging liquor, and
other illegal activities such as prostitution, in Chicago from the early
1920orn in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City to Italian
immigrants, Capone became involved with gang activity at a young age
after being expelled from school at age 14.[2] In his early twenties, he
moved to Chicago to take advantage of a new opportunity to make
money smuggling illegal alcoholic beverages into the city during
Prohibition. He also engaged in various other criminal activities,
including bribery of government figures and prostitution.s to 1931.
Al Capone is America's best known gangster and the single
greatest symbol of the collapse of law and order in the United
States during the 1920s Prohibition era. Capone had a leading
role in the illegal activities that lent Chicago its reputation as a
lawless city.

Capone was born on January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York.
Baptized "Alphonsus Capone," he grew up in a rough
neighborhood and was a member of two "kid gangs," the
Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors. Although he
was bright, Capone quit school in the sixth grade at age
fourteen. Between scams he was a clerk in a candy store, a
pinboy in a bowling alley, and a cutter in a book bindery. He
became part of the notorious Five Points gang in Manhattan and
worked in gangster Frankie Yale's Brooklyn dive, the Harvard
Inn, as a bouncer and bartender. While working at the Inn,
Capone received his infamous facial scars and the resulting
nickname "Scarface" when he insulted a patron and was
attacked by her brother.