Before he became the most notorious gangster in American history, Al Capone lived at a modest two story Chicago red-brick home - and now it could be yours for just $109,000.
Listed for sale on the week of the 90th anniversary of the gruesome St. Valentines Day Massacre, Capone moved into the south-side home in 1923, having arrived from New York to aide the criminal operations of then Chicago Outfit mob boss Johnny Torrio.
Later known as 'Scarface', Capone purchased the six-bedroom property for $5000 and lived there with his wife Mae, his mother Teresina, and his sister Mafalda Maritote.
According to a Chicago Tribune news clipping from 1927, Capone 'was virtually a prisoner' at the home, with a police car often surveying for criminal misdeeds outside of the property on Prairie Avenue.
Al Capone moved into the home from New York in 1923 to work for the Chicago Outfit mob boss Johnny Torrio
Considered a 'prisoner' at the home, Capone installed a secret tunnel from the basement to the garage to evade police watch (pictured: A police car sits outside the home in 1925)
To evade their watch, the infamous bootlegger installed a secret tunnel from the home's basement to the garage.
The door believed to be the entrance way to the secret passage is still in place today.
Equipped with hardwood floors and high ceilings the abode still bares a number of other characteristics the Capone's originally furnished it with.
'The kitchen on the first floor is probably from the '50s,' Ryan Smith, the estate agent representing the property for Crain's, said.
'That could have still been there when his mother lived there. That doesn't appear to have been updated at any time.'
Teresina Capone, lived at the home for nearly 30 years until her death in 1952.
It was purchased on January 15, 1953 and has been on and off the market ever since.
Al Capone is considered to be one of America's most notorious gangsters, having overseen the US' largest bootlegging operation in Chicago during the Prohibition
Equipped with hardwood floors and high ceilings the abode still bares a number of other characteristics the Capone's originally furnished it with
'Scarface' lived at the home with his mother, wife and sister. His mother, Terisina Capone, lived at the property until her death in 1952
Capone bought the property for just $5000 and its been on and off the market formuch of the last 10 years
The property has been on and off the market ever since. It was listed for $450,000 in 2009, but is now listed for just a quarter of that, at $109,900 (pictured: the secret tunnel entrance door is still present at the property, though the tunnel itself has been filled in
Much of the home is considered to be relatively untouched since Teresina occupied the home. In a 1929 Chicago Tribune news clipping,noted the home's 'soft lighting and velvet rugs'
In 2009 the 2,820-square-foot unit was listed for a handsome $450,000, and saw a 50 percent slash to the price tag in 2014 to $225,000.
It's last owner lost the home to foreclosure in 2018.
And now the property is going for an absolute steal for just $109,900 - a far cheaper alternative than Capone's Miami Beach mansion that was put on the market last year for $15 million.
Capone was eventually arrested in 1931, on charges of tax evasion - bring much of his reign to an end. He died in 1947 after going into cardiac arrest in Miami
Chicago police open a safe at Capone's home in 1931, the courts and the IRS wanted to gather maximum proof of criminal activity against the man who was considered as public enemy number one
Organized crime ruled the streets of Chicago during the 1920s, and Brooklyn-born Capone played an instrumental part in the Chicago Outfit's Prohibition bootlegging operation, before heading up the mob himself.
The Midwestern metropolis descended into lawlessness as politicians and law enforcement were bribed into silence while the mafia waged bloody warfare across the city.
Despite overseeing a crime syndicate reveling in the outlawed businesses of gambling, prostitution and racketeering, Capone never shone away from the media spotlight and became a national celebrity.
Speaking to reporters in Chicago, Capone refused to apologize for his criminal operations and instead said he was doing a 'public service' to members of the city.
But for all his showmanship and flashy outfits, a darker side to Capone lurked beneath the media's glare.
Trafficking alcohol during Prohibition was a lucrative business for organized crime and Bugs Moran, head of The North Side Gang controlled the majority of shutdown breweries and distilleries that lined the north side of the city.
Determined to monopolize the city's operations, Capone's outfit declared war on the North-side gang, and between 1922 and 1926, 474 mobsters were killed.
These years were defined by fraud, revenge murders, bombings, heists and turf wars; punctuated briefly by an armistice between the two enemy syndicates.
The St. Valentines Day massacre, 1929 - the biggest single-hit mob ambush in history - saw seven of Capone's rival North-Side Gang executed against a wall by two men dressed as police officers
They had been lured to a warehouse in the city on the promise of an intercepted whiskey order of Capone's. The hit was intended for Bugs Moran and his top lieutenants but instead Moran was running late that morning
Capone narrowly escaped death twice himself in 1925 and 1926 after being ambushed by North Side capos.
The conflict came to a climax on February 14, 1929 - history's biggest single-day mob hit that saw seven members of Bugs Moran's North Side Gang executed against a wall by four assassins disguised as uniformed policemen wielding machine guns.
They had been lured to the SMC Cartage Warehouse under the false promise of a stolen, cut-rate shipment of Canadian whiskey that belonged to Capone.
The hit was intended for Bugs Moran and his top lieutenants but instead Moran was running late that morning and missed the massacre entirely by a few minutes.
Chicago Daily News front page reporting the St Valentines Day Massacre in 1929
Peter (left) and Frank (right) Gusenberg two of the victims were two of the seven victims. Both brothers were contact killers for The North Side Gang. Frank survived the massacre despite being shot 14 times but refused to break the Mafia vow of silence in identifying his attackers. He died at a local hospital three hours later
Photos of the gruesome mass executions were published in newspapers the next day; leaving Americans stunned and speechless over what became known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Capone was never charged for orchestrating the massacre but he was finally brought down for tax evasion in 1931.
In the year before his death, a psychiatrist determined Capone to have the mentality of a 12-year-old child, as a result of contracting syphilis at one of his brothels several years earlier.
After suffering a stroke and falling ill with pneumonia, Capone died after going into Cardiac arrest, on January 25 1947.
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Listed for sale on the week of the 90th anniversary of the gruesome St. Valentines Day Massacre, Capone moved into...
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