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Al Capone's Family Getting Their Own Chicago-Based Reality Show

Posted 04.10.2013 | Chicago
Read More: Video, Mob Doctor Chicago, The Capones Reality Show, The Capones Reality, Al Capone Chicago, The Mob Doctor Cancelled, The Capones Chicago, Mob Wives Chicago, Dawn Capone, Mob Wives Cancelled, Chicago Tv Shows, Chicago Mob, Dom Capone, Al Capone, The Capones Tv Show, Chicago News

A reality show about mobsters, Al Capone lore, a "lasagna-loving" family and more Italian stereotypes than you can shake a (bread) stick at — all se...

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Valentine's Day at the Heartland Institute

Mark Boslough | Posted 04.16.2013 | Green
Read More: Global Warming Deniers, Chicago, Heartland Institute, Climate Change, Global Warming, Al Capone, Fakegate, Fake Tank, Green News
Mark Boslough

Scientists have long known that the Heartland Institute is a fake science organization. Now we have the documentation to prove it. It's not a think tank. It's a fake tank. Thanks for the Valentine, Heartland!

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PHOTOS: Happy Repeal Day! The Prohibition Era In Chicago

Posted 12.05.2012 | Chicago
Read More: Chicago History, Al Capone Chicago, Chicago History Museum, Chicago Gangsters, Prohibition Era Chicago Photos, Al Capone Photos, Prohibition Era in Chicago, Prohibition Era, Chicago Prohibition, Al Capone, Chicago News

Wednesday is Dec. 5, a truly significant date in American history. No, we're not talking about Johnny Rzeznik's birthday here. We're talking about Rep...

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The 10 Richest Drug Dealers Ever

Posted 10.17.2012 | Home
Read More: Juarez Cartel, Drug Cartels, Video, Ochoa Brothers, Pablo Escobar, Medellin Cartel, Forbes Billionaires, Richest Drug Dealers, Drug Dealers, Drugs, Billionaires, Griselda Blanco, Al Capone, Home News

Who are the richest drug dealers of all time? Celebrity Net Worth has the answer. On Tuesday, the money-minded blog posted a list of the top 20 mos...

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David Lohr

Legendary Outlaw Butch Cassidy's Colt .45 To Be Auctioned

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 09.20.2012 | Crime
Read More: Wild Bunch Gang, RMK Services, Parley Christison, Maile Pingel, Pinkerton Detective Agency, Crime, Crime News, Slidewide, Harry Longabaugh, Guns, Sundance Kid, Old West, Video, Butch Cassidy, Robert LeRoy Parker, Colt, California Auctioneers, Auction, Amnesty Colt, Al Capone, Crime News

A pistol that once belonged to legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy will be auctioned on Sept. 30 and is expected to fetch upwards of $250,000. Maile Pin...

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PHOTOS: Inside Capone's $9.95M Beach Estate

The Huffington Post | Christiana Lilly | Posted 07.22.2012 | Miami
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After undergoing renovations to bring the property back to its former glory, notorious mobster Al Capone's Miami Beach estate is back on the market fo...

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David Lohr

Al Capone Was No Monster (At Least According To This Woman)

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 06.12.2012 | Crime
Read More: New York Crime, Crime, Crime News, Organized Crime, Mafia, Scarface, Deirdre Marie Capone, Slideexpand, George Moran, Prohibition, Video, Deirdre Capone, Chicago Crime, Mobsters, St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Bugs Moran, Al Capone, Crime News

NEW YORK -- The grandniece of infamous American crime czar Al "Scarface" Capone, is hoping a tell-all book she has penned will clear up decades of hal...

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'American Digger': Chicago Cops Bust Ric Savage

Posted 05.24.2012 | TV
Read More: TV Canada, Video, Canada Tv, Reality TV, Ric Savage, Chicago, Auction, American Digger, Spike TV, Treasure Hunting, Tv Replay, Al Capone, TV News

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 | Chicago
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 | Chicago
Read More: Chicago Tax Fraud, Al Capone Tax Fraud, Chicago History, Video, Chicago Corruption, Tax Day, Tax Day 2012, Chicago Tax Day, Chicago Tax Evasion, Tax Evasion, Slidepollajax, Tax Fraud, George Ryan, Al Capone, Chicago News

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 | Chicago
Read More: Putin Chicago Mob, Nato Summit Chicago, Vladimir Putin Russia, Chicago Mob, Barack Obama, Putin Al Capone, Vladimir Putin NATO, Vladimir Putin G8, Putin Chicago Al Capone, Vladimir Putin Obama, Nato Summit, Putin Obama, Al Capone, Vladimir Putin Chicago, Chicago News

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 | Crime
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
Ellen Sterling

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 | Entertainment
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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 | Chicago
Read More: Chicago Crime, Rod Blagojevich, Al Capone, Chicago News

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 | Chicago
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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 | Books
Read More: White House, Pearl Harbor, Security, Al Capone, Secret Service, Fdr, Books News
Steven M. Gillon

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

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 | Crime
Read More: Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Anthony ?€œFat Tony? Salermo, Joseph Kennedy, Richest Gangsters, Pablo Escobar, Frank Lucas, Joaquin ?€œEl 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 | Green
Read More: The Untouchables, Clean Air, Parenting, American Lung Association, Children, Epa, Al Capone, Green News
Marcia G. Yerman

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 | Chicago
Read More: Al Capone Gun, Al Capone Gun Sold, Chicago Mob, Chicago History, Capone, Al Capone, Chicago News

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 | Chicago
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 | Books
Read More: Slidepollajax, Mafia, Office Politics, How to Succeed in Business, Don, La Cosa Nostra, Mob, Mobsters, Mob Rules, Al Capone, Books News
Louis Ferrante

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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David Lohr

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

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 09.27.2011 | Weird News
Read More: Video, John Dillinger, Crime, Weird Artifacts, Weird Auctions, Mobsters, Cole Younger, Auction, Christie's, Jesse James, Alcatraz, Al Capone, Weird News News

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 | Comedy
Read More: Slidepollajax, Alexander Graham Bell, History, League of Women Voters, St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Oregon, Anti-Valentines-Day, Valentine's Day, Frederick Douglass, Al Capone, Mormon Church, Gps, Big Love, Soviet Union, Sister Wives, Comedy News
James Napoli

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 | Chicago
Read More: Chicago Machine, Illinois Corruption, Illinois Politics, Rod Blagojevich, Illinois Machine Politics, Al Capone, Chicago News

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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