Vintage Chicago Tribune: St. Valentine's Day massacre

It was the most infamous of all gangland slayings in America, and it savagely achieved its purpose — the elimination of the last challenge to Al Capone for the mantle of crime boss in Chicago. The St. Valentine’s Day massacre shocked a city that had been numbed by Roaring ’20s gang warfare over control of illegal beer and whiskey distribution. “These murders went out of the comprehension of a ...

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