On Oct. 17, 1931, infamous Chicago mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison, according to PBS. Law enforcement officials had been trying to take Capone ...

Al Capone’s vaults inside a decrepit Chicago hotel were embarrassingly empty in 1986. The real riches of the legendary boss of Chicago’s organized crime syndicate have been located more than 2,000 ...

The most exhilarating live television event of 1986 was the Chicago Bears winning Super Bowl XX, for some. For others, it was a two-hour broadcast from a basement. On April 21, 1986 — 37 years ago — ...

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One of Alcatraz’s most well-known prisoners left the famed island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay for the last time 87 ...

Al Capone’s name has become synonymous with Prohibition-era gang violence. Like many outlaws of the era, he is today romanticized as a mob legend, Capone’s actual climb to the top in 1920s Chicago was ...

The McSwiggin murder was the kind of story that editors once thought sold newspapers. The Tribune laid out the initial facts in a front-page story on April 28, 1926: “William H. McSwiggin, youthful ...

The head of a criminal enterprise in Chicago is far more violent and dangerous than mob boss Al Capone ever was, according to the FBI. To capture the elusive, vicious Joaquin Guzman Loera, the FBI ...

Al Capone’s vaults inside a decrepit Chicago hotel were embarrassingly empty in 1986. The real riches of the legendary boss of Chicago’s organized crime syndicate have been located more than 2,000 ...