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'American Digger': Chicago Cops Bust Ric Savage

Posted 05.24.2012

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On the latest episode of "American Digger" (Wed., 10 p.m. ET on Spike), Ric Savage and the crew headed to Chicago in search of loot from mobster Al Ca...

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Capone's Suburban Hideout For Sale On eBay

Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Al Capone Hideout, Chicago Crime History, Video, Chicago Crime, Al Capone Fox Lake, Al Capone Fox Lake Hideout, Al Capone Weekend Retreat, Al Capone Mineola Hotel, Mineola Hotel, Al Capone, Mineola Lounge and Marina Fox Lake, Chicago News

The northern Illinois historic hotel that previously served as a hideout for notorious mobster Al Capone is now up for auction on eBay. The Mineola...

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PHOTOS: Chicago's Most Notorious Tax Fraudsters

Posted 04.17.2012

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Considering Chicago's reputation as home to the nation's largest concentration of corrupt elected officials, it is not terribly surprising that the Se...

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When Putin Thinks Of Chicago, A Certain Gangster Comes To Mind

AP | Posted 03.07.2012

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MOSCOW -- You think Chicago, you think Windy City. Right? Not if you're Russian president-elect Vladimir Putin....

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Las Vegas' New Mob Museum Tells An All-American Story

Ellen Sterling | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Ellen B. Knowlton, Estes Kefauver, Kathleen Hickey Barrie, Jonathan Ullman, Oscar Goodman, Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, Organized Crime, Dennis Barrie, Mob Museum, Las Vegas, Al Capone, Video, Crime News

Today is the opening of what is formally called the "National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement," but called by most, simply, "the Mob Museum."

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Tom Hardy, Hollywood's Best Bad Boy

Posted 03.12.2012

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Tom Hardy is becoming Hollywood's go-to bad boy. The rising British star is attached to play legendary Chicago mobster Al Capone in the Warner Bros...

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Al Capone Got Lighter Sentence Than Blagojevich

NBC Chicago | Posted 02.11.2012

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Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in federal prison. The sentence came six months after he was found guilty on 17 of 20 ...

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Al Capone ‘Didn't Deserve To Go To Alcatraz,' Says Closest Surviving Relative

Radar Online | Posted 01.22.2012

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Notorious gangster Al Capone is known as the most infamous criminals of the 1920s, but his closest living relative says he didn't deserve being sent t...

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New Document Reveals Measures Taken to Protect FDR in the Days After Pearl Harbor

Steven M. Gillon | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: White House, Pearl Harbor, Security, Al Capone, Secret Service, Fdr, Books News

A recently declassified secret service document details the extraordinary steps taken to protect President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the hours after the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941

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Obama Staff Profiles: Rahm Emanuel

The Relentless Conservative | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Democratic "Attack Dog, Bill Clinton, " George Stephanopoulis, Barack Hussein Obama, Richard Daley, Rahm Emanuel, Al Capone, Politics News

While Rahm Emanuel is listed as a "politician" in his Wikipedia entry, he's not. Emanuel is a Democratic operative at the highest levels; he bleeds Dem blue. He wasn't a politician until well after quelling all the Clinton scandals.

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Top 10 Richest Gangsters Of All Time

newsone.com | David Moye | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Anthony ?Fat Tony? Salermo, Joseph Kennedy, Richest Gangsters, Pablo Escobar, Frank Lucas, Joaquin ?El Chapo? Guzman Loera, Carlos Lehder, Meyer Lansky, Griselda Blanco, Al Capone, Crime News

Even though they say crime doesn’t pay, several rich gangsters prove otherwise. While most end up dead or in jail, a very lucky few get to spend ...

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Clean Air and the Baby Carriage

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: The Untouchables, Clean Air, Parenting, American Lung Association, Children, Epa, Al Capone, Green News

Children. They are vulnerable. They are innocent. They are the future. Perhaps that is why the American Lung Association has tapped into an iconic image to speak to the public about the need to fight for clean air.

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Al Capone's Handgun Sells For $110,000 At Auction

AP | Posted 08.22.2011

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LONDON — A handgun once owned by gangster Al Capone sold for nearly $110,000 Wednesday at an auction in London. The Colt .38 revolver was manuf...

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For Sale: Al Capone Gun, Price Tag $100K

Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Chicago Crime History, Christie's London, Crime, Chicago, Ralph Capone, Christie's, Speakeasies, Auctions, Madeleine Capone Morichetti, Prohibition Era, Al Capone, Chicago News

Collectors hoping to call an unusual and rare piece of Chicago history their own will be bidding Wednesday on a six-shot revolver formerly owned by le...

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PHOTOS: 10 Best Mafia Lessons For Success In Business

Louis Ferrante | Posted 08.06.2011

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If you're climbing the corporate ladder and eager to succeed, you can glean some valuable lessons from mobsters who are employees of the longest running organization in history: the Mafia.

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What Would You Pay For Al Capone's .38 Special?

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 09.27.2011

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A handgun that once belonged to notorious Chicago gangster Al "Scarface" Capone will be auctioned on June 22 and is expected to fetch more than $100,0...

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Up Yours, Valentine's Day! 10 Other Things to Celebrate Instead

James Napoli | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lots of other things in history happened on February 14th, and it's just as valid to pay homage to them as it is to Cupid. So find the Valentine's alternative that's right for you and reclaim the day!

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Why Is Illinois So Corrupt? Experts Weigh In On State's Sleazy Political Culture

Chicago Magazine | Posted 05.25.2011

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When federal agents arrested Governor Rod Blagojevich two years ago--interrupting what the U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald called "a political corrup...

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Julian Assange, Socrates and Al Capone

Katharine Quarmby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Freedom of Information Act, Socrates, Freedom of the Press, Al Capone, Julian Assange Wikileaks, World News

Causing red faces and embarrassment are hardly criminal offenses. Clean and open societies need their gadflies, as Socrates found to his cost.

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5 Ways to Keep Mad Men in Your Life

Lea Lane | Posted 05.25.2011

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For many of us, Sunday nights without Mad Men will be difficult. (And what about Monday mornings analyses and commenting with other "madmenmaniacs"?) ...

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HBO's Boardwalk Empire Helps Us Understand Drug Prohibition

Tony Newman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Prohibition didn't work with alcohol -- that's why it was repealed after just 13 years. Today, after several decades of drug prohibition, it should be clear that it's never going to work.

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Classic "Under the Radar" Gangster Movies

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gloria Grahame, John Dillinger, Stanley Kubrick, Glenn Ford, Edward G. Robinson, Sterling Hayden, Martin Scorsese, Pulp Fiction, Best Movies by Farr, Marlene Dietrich, Alan Ladd, Jules Dassin, Dick Powell, Underworld, Bonnie and Clyde, Elia Kazan, Fritz Lang, Al Capone, Humphrey Bogart, American Film Institute, James Cagney, Lee Marvin, Veronica Lake, Best Movies on DVD, Mafia, Claire Trevor, Goodfellas Movie, Raymond Chandler, Thirteen/WNET, John Huston, Francis Ford Coppola, Criiterion Collection, Rififi, The Godfather, Angie Dickinson, Quentin Tarantino, Josef Von Sternberg, Richard Widmark, John Garfield, Gangster Movies, Entertainment News

Crime has not just been good to the criminals; it's been awfully good to Hollywood as well.

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Al Capone's Great Niece Puts Pen To Paper: 'Uncle Al Capone' Starts Family Feud

Wall Street Journal | David Kesmodel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Memoirs, Get Capone, Books, Organized Crime, Son of Scarface, Chris Knight Capone, Deirde Marie Capone, Reading, Mobster, Al Capone, Books News

Deirdre Marie Capone, a great niece of Al Capone, spent years concealing her connection to the legendary mobster. Like a lot of his relatives, she use...

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PHOTOS: Chicago's Most Famous Public Enemies

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chicago Crime Commission, John Dillinger, Chicago Gangs, Slidepollajax, Chicago Gangsters, Pretty Boy Floyd, FBI Most Wanted, Baby Face Nelson, Chicago Mob, Chicago Crime, Al Capone, Chicago News

CHICAGO -- The Chicago Crime Commission has resurrected a list of bad guys that once included the likes of Al Capone in the hopes it will help track d...

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Get Capone Author Jonathan Eig on The Interview Show

Mark Bazer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gangsters, Jonathan Eig, Hideout, Chicago, Prohibition, Al Capone, Chicago News

Jonathan Eig, author of Get Capone and other books, stopped by The Interview Show to discuss Al Capone, writing and more.

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