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NRHP reference No. 100007206 [1] Added to NRHP. November 24, 2021. The Whitcomb Hotel, located in St. Joseph, Michigan, was a renowned hotel in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries known for its mineral spa and panoramic views of Lake Michigan and the St. Joseph River. It is now a four-star senior living community.
Bonnie (Porter) Burke. Criminal charge. Murder. Penalty. Life sentence. Fred " Killer " Burke (May 29, 1893 – July 10, 1940) was an American armed robber and contract killer responsible for many crimes during the Prohibition era. He was considered a prime suspect in the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.
11 years imprisonment (1931) Signature. Alphonse Gabriel Capone ( / kəˈpoʊn /; [1] January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname " Scarface ", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1925 to 1931. His seven-year ...
The Keuka “was used by Al Capone’s men in the prohibition days for a speakeasy (from) 1929 to 1931,” he wrote on Facebook. Although alcohol was illegal in Michigan during prohibition, that ...
Chicago Outfit. The Chicago Outfit (also known as the Outfit, the Chicago Mafia, the Chicago Mob, the Chicago crime family, the South Side Gang or The Organization) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Chicago, Illinois, which originated in the city's South Side in 1910. The organization is part of the larger Italian-American Mafia .
Miami-Dade’s long-standing connection to Al Capone, probably the most famous organized crime boss in the 20th century, has come to an unceremonious rubble-filled end. Capone, declared Public ...
The Purple Gang, also known as the Sugar House Gang, was a criminal mob of bootleggers and hijackers composed predominantly of Jewish gangsters. They operated in Detroit, Michigan, during the 1920s of the Prohibition era and came to be Detroit's dominant criminal gang. Excessive violence and infighting caused the gang to destroy itself in the ...
Johnny Torrio. John Donato Torrio [1] (born Donato Torrio, Italian: [doˈnaːto ˈtɔrrjo]; January 20, 1882 – April 16, 1957) was an Italian-born American mobster who helped build the Chicago Outfit in the 1920s later inherited by his protégé Al Capone. [2] Torrio proposed a National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s and later became an adviser ...