Organized crime was not so organized up until the 1920s. When the 1920s arrived, the American lifestyle changed dramatically. People started investing money in home appliances and automobiles, women's skirts became higher and drinking became very popular. Also, organized crime came to a rise in the 1920's. And in the high ranks of organized crime was Al Capone. Al Capone ran many illegal businesses including bootlegging, gambling, prostitution, and murders. There were many gangs in the world of organized crime and Al Capone's was at the top. Al Capone was the most infamous gangster in the 1920's and it had been said that he may have been the most infamous Mafioso of all time only rivaled by John Gotti.

Being a big time gangster was big business.

After the Murder of Dion O'Banion, Al Capone and Johnny torrio began to fear for their lives. O'Banion's gang did not give up, at one point they struck in mid daylight. Capone's headquarters was the Hawthorne Hotel, the plan was precise. There were two cars packed with thugs, the first car drove by shooting blank rounds to draw out Capone's men, the next car was to spray the hotel lobby and other surrounding buildings with thousands of bullets. The plan did not work, Capone survived and so did many others, the deaths suprisingly scarce. Since 2 years after O'bannons murder, 12 attempts to assassinate Capone were made. And when Torrio returned, he was almost shot to death.

Al Capone was in constant danger because he was one of the top bootleggers. Richard "peg leg" Lonergan was one of Al Capone's rival bootleggers. Al Capone was invited to Frankie Yale's 1925 Christmas party. Yale was tipped off that Lonergan and some of his boys were going to crash the party. The party was going to be canceled but Capone refused. The party happened and Lonergan and his boys showed up around 3:00, Capone had a surprise of his own. When Capone gave the signal "peg leg" didn't know what to expect. The thing is, Yales Christmas party was held in New York, and by murdering these men Capone was showing his superiority. As Alva Johnston said in the New Yorker "Chicago is the imperial city of the gang world and New York a remote provincial place." The incident was known as The Adonis club massacre. Prohibition may have caused the highest crime rate ever in organized crime.

Of all the murders, the cause of many may lie in the hands of the prohibition act. The act started on January 16, 1920. It stated that liqueur that is a beverage can not be manufactured, nor sold, nor be hauled on the face of the earth, but there were many people against this, a lot of those people were gangsters and other thugs. But they didn't just talk about it, many men became bootleggers and racketeerers. The profits made by this were enormous. Bootlegging led to a tremendous rivalry between a lot of gangs.

Frankie yale was a longtime friend of Al Capone and Johnny Torrio. He was used in various hits including the murders of Dion O'banion and "Big Jim" Colosimo. In 1928 Capone found out that Yale had been hijacking many of his "booze" trucks. Soon after, Yale was shot down.

Al Capone finally got a taste of leadership after a few years of partnersh

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