Al Capone is the best-known gangster of all time and by far the most powerful gangster of his era. His mob dominated the Chicago area from 1925 to 1931, until he was finally busted for income tax evasion. This was the only crime that could be proven against him. He went to jail at Alcatraz for eight years until he became very ill with syphilis (a sexually transmitted disease) and died from the disease in 1947.

Al Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 17, 1899. Capone grew up in a tough neighborhood in Brooklyn, and attended school through the sixth grade. He received his nickname Scarface as a result of a knife attack from the brother of a girl he had insulted which left three scares on his face. Capone joined the James Street gang that was headed by a guy named Johnny Torrio. In 1920, Torrio asked Capone to go to Chicago and work with his uncle who controlled the city's largest prostitution and gambling ring at the time. Later that year the Prohibition act came into affect and Capone beca

Capone was sentenced to Atlanta's federal prison for 11 years. In 1934 he was transferred to Alcatraz prison in San Francisco. He was paroled in 1939. Following his release, he never returned to Chicago. He had become mentally incapable of returning to the "mob life." He spent the rest of his life in Palm Island mansion with his wife and immediate family, in a secluded atmosphere. In 1946, his physician and a Baltimore psychiatrist both concluded that Al Capone had the mental ability of a 12-year-old child. He died due to a stroke and pneumonia on January 25, 1947 because he was suffering from syphilis

At the age of 26, Capone was managing more than 1,000 employees with a Payroll of more than $300,000 a week. He demanded total loyalty from all of his Employees. During this time Capone became so rich that he gave out free food for Chicago's unemployed, which made him look like he had a heart of gold. By 1927, Capone was grossing about $105,000,000 a year from various illegal operations (the average law-abiding US citizen in 1927 was taking home just $2,400 a year in pay). When appearing in public, he traveled in a seven-ton limousine and had 18 bodyguards including the guy who gave him the scares on his face. Capone was a marked man by this time, and after several attempts on his life from a rival gang, he struck back with the St. Valentine's Day Massacre on February 14, 1929. It may be the greatest violence that ever occurred during the Chicago gang era, as seven members of "

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