Today, no underworld figure is more iconic than Al Capone and no lawman as renowned as Eliot Ness. Valentine’s Day Massacre transformed Capone into “Public Enemy Number One,” the federal government found an unlikely new hero in a twenty-seven-year-old Prohibition agent named Eliot Ness.Ĭhosen to head the legendary law enforcement team known as “The Untouchables,” Ness set his sights on crippling Capone's criminal empire. To a public who scorned Prohibition, “Scarface” became a local hero and national celebrity.īut after the brutal St. In 1929, thirty-year-old gangster Al Capone ruled both Chicago’s underworld and its corrupt government.

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