CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — It has been nine decades since Chicago's "Public Enemy Number One" — and, arguably, most famous resident — went to jail.
It was on Oct. 17, 1931, that mobster Al Capone was convicted in Chicago of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison.
Capone controlled the Chicago-area underworld during the prohibition “beer wars” in the 1920s.
He was linked to many murders including mobster Dion O'Banion who was the leader of a North Side gang, his successor Hymie Weiss and the seven victims of the infamous St. Valentine's Day massacre of 1929.
Capone was convicted in 1929 of carrying a concealed handgun and spent 10 months in a Philadelphia jail. A Treasury Department investigation led to his 1931 conviction for failure to report income and pay taxes; he was imprisoned, for a time in the newly opened Alcatraz, until 1939.
Capone’s family lived in the Park Manor neighborhood on the South Side for many years.
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