Al Capone was America's most notorious gangster during the 1920s Prohibition era in the United States. He grew up in Brooklyn and joined gangs as a teenager before moving to Chicago in 1919, where he rose to power in the criminal underworld by controlling alcohol and prostitution rings. Capone orchestrated notorious killings like the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre and provided charity during the Depression. However, he was eventually convicted of tax evasion in 1931 and sentenced to 11 years in prison, dying in 1947 while incarcerated.

1. AMERICAN GANGSTER

2. AL CAPONE

3. BIOGRAPHY

4. Alphonse Gabriel 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

5. He was born in January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York

6. He grew up in a rough neighborhood and was a member of two "kid gangs," the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors. Capone quit school in the sixth grade at age fourteen. EARLY CRIMINAL CAREER

7. Capone's first arrest was on a disorderly conduct charge while he was working for Yale. He also murdered two men

8. CHICAGO He arrived in Chicago in 1919. There he was elevated to handling the Four Deuces bar and given responsibility for much of the alcohol and prostitution in the city of Chicago

9. St. Valentine's Day Massacre

10. Capone's most notorious killing was the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. On February 14, 1929, two of Capone's men killed seven men in a garage of a building

11. Capone's "Free Lunch" Restaurant Capone was the first to open soup kitchens after the 1929 stock market crash and he ordered merchants to give clothes and food to the needy at his expense

12. Capone was tried in a federal court in 1931. He was found guilty of tax evasion. The judge sentenced him to eleven years in a federal prison and one year in the county jail. He also had to pay fines and court costs totalling 80,000 dollars. Federal income taxes and downfall

13. PRISON TIME

14. In May 1932, Capone was sent to Atlanta, a tough federal prison. He was then transferred to Alcatraz, where tight security ensured that Capone had no contact with the outside world

15. DEATH He died on January 25, 1947 from cardiac arrest. Capone was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Chicago's far South Side