Al Capone is perhaps the best known gangster of all time and by far the most powerful mob boss of his era. His mob dominated the Chicago area from 1925 to 1931, when he was imprisoned for income tax evasion. This was the only crime the courts could prove against him. He went to jail at Alcatraz for eight years until he became very ill withsyphilis and died from the disease in 1947 RL:http://www.broonale.co.uk/austria/capone.html 1-3). Al Capone was born somewhere in Brooklyn on January 17,1899 but knowbody really knows for sure. Capone grew up in a tough neighborhood inBrooklyn, N.Y. He attended school thro....

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