Crime
Al Capone started to work for Johnny Torrio in Chicago, where he owned a sucsessful bootlegging company. When Torrio recognized Capone's street smarts and skill with numbers, Torrio made Capone a partner. Capone's notoriety was increasing, unlike his mentor, who kept a low profile. In 1925, Torrio fled the country and went to Italy, because of rival mobsters. Capone, the new boss of the buisness, moved headquarters to a plush suite in a hotel, in downtown Chicago. Capone ignored his old partners adivce, which was to keep a low profile. Al started to live a rich lifestyle, where he earned an estimated $100 million a year. Many people thought that Al was doing favorable things for the public by supplying banned alcohol. However, in addition to supplying liquor, Capone started excecuting competition. As his number of murders grew, his popularity decreased. In 1926, two of Al's arch enemies were seen in Cicero, a town in Illinois, and Al ordered two of his men to gun them down. William McSwiggin, a prosecutor at the time, was with the two marked men, and all three were killed. Chigaco became angry and worrysome with the gang activity, so they demanded justice. But the police could not arrest him, because they did not have enough evidence. So, they decided to go take a look at Capone's buisness, where they gathered evidence that they would soon use to arrest him.
Valentines Day Massacre
In early 1929, Capone controlled all illegal liquor trade in the Chicago area. But other criminals wanted to get in on the money, such as one of Capone's Arch enemies, "Bugs" Moran. Moran tried to assassinate Capone and Torrio before, and now he also wanted to kill Al Capone's best hitman, "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn. So, in result of the failed assassination of Capone and Torrio, Capone and Machine Gun decided to kill Moran. Posing as a police officer, one of McGurn's gunmen lined up seven of Moran's men on a wall. The fake officer gunned them all of the seven men down. From that point on, it has been known as the "Valentines Day Massacre".