Does Al Capone embody the American dream?

• • 1914: Al Capone got his start in New York, working as a thug and bouncer (where he got three scars that spawned his nickname 'Scarface')
  • 1919: He moved to Chicago and quickly moved up in the ranks of Johnny Torio's gang. Capone was known for his smarts & brutality.
  • 1925: He was in charge of ome of Chicago's biggest criminal gangs.
• • 1927: Capone made $60 million out of illegal alcohol. He argued that he was only acting as a businessman, supplying on a public demand.
  • 1929: It was Capone's men who gunned down seven rivals in 1929, in what was named the 'St Valentines Day Massacre'
• • In the same year as the Valentines day Massacre (1929) Capone opened a soup kitchen to feed the Chicago poor left vulnerable after the Wall St. Crash.
  • 1931: Capone was purchased by federal agent Elliot Ness and ended up finally going to jail for income tax evasion.
  • 1939: Capone was released on good behaviour (and because he'd been suffering from syphilis related ailments)
  • Capone retired to his estate in Florida and died in 1947 of heart failure.