The Life and World Of Al Capone
Written By, John Kopler
Report By, Adam Monteverde
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......

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