Capone's parents immigrated to the United States from Naples in 1893. Al, the fourth of nine children, grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He attended school until the sixth grade until he dropped out at the age of fourteen for striking a teacher. After he stopped attending school, he worked various odd jobs, including a candy store clerk, a bowling alley pin boy, a common laborer in an ammunition plant, and a cutter in a book bindery, all while part of two "kid gangs", groups of delinquent children that vandalized and committed petty crimes.
Soon Capone became a member of the James Street Boys gang, run by Johnny Torrio, the man that would become his lifelong mentor. At the age of 16 and with the help of Torrio, Capone became a member of the Five Points gang and server aspiring mobster Francesco Iolele as a bartender in Yale's brothel-saloon, the Harvard Inn.
After doing a stint in prison, Torrio retired to Italy, and Capone became the king of crime in Chicago, running gambling, prostitution, and counterfeiting. He expanded his territories by gunning down rivals and rival gangs. In 1926, Capone went into hiding fire three months after inadvertently killing McSwiggin while murdering other rivals. Again his crimes went unpunished.
His wealth in 1927 was thought to be $100 million. But his reign of terror would soon come to an end. On June 5th, 1931, he was indicted for 22 counts of federal income tax evasion from the years 1925-1929. He was admitted into Atlanta Penitentiary but was transferred to the notorious Alcatraz. After he got out, he spent the rest of his years in retirement, a powerless recluse, until his death in 1947 from cardiac arrest.
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Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Al-Capone
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