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During the mid to late 1920s, Belcastro was suspected of causing over 100 deaths while bombing saloons that refused to buy alcohol from Capone. During the 1927 Chicago primary elections – the so-called " Pineapple Primary " – Belcastro launched a bombing campaign against the opponents of Capone ally and Mayor, William Hale Thompson .
He received his LL.B. degree from Northwestern Law School, in 1874. In his 70-year legal career, Loesch represented numerous corporate and individual clients, including several major railroads and the American Medical Association. In 1908, Loesch was appointed Special State's Attorney for Cook County. He prosecuted frauds committed during the ...
Vincenzo Colosimo [2] (Italian: [vinˈtʃɛntso koˈlɔːzimo]; February 16, 1878 – May 11, 1920), known as James "Big Jim" Colosimo or as "Diamond Jim", was an Italian-American Mafia crime boss who emigrated from Calabria, Italy, in 1895 and built a criminal empire in Chicago based on prostitution, gambling and racketeering.
Kobler, John (1992). Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone. Da Capo Press. ISBN 9780306804991. Donovan, Brian (2010). White Slave Crusades: Race, Gender, and Anti-vice Activism, 1887–1917. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252091001. Eig, Jonathan (2014). Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster. Tantor ...
"Frank Rio, Once Bodyguard for Al Capone, Dies." Chicago Daily Tribune. February 24, 1935. Johnson, Curt and Sautter, R. Craig. The Wicked City: Chicago from Kenna to Capone. Paperback ed. Chicago: Da Capo Press, 1998. ISBN 0-306-80821-8; Kobler, John. Capone: The Life and Times of Al Capone. New York: Da Capo Press, 2003. ISBN 0-306-81285-1
In October, a general amnesty had been ordered between Al Capone's Chicago Outfit and Bugs Moran's North Side Gang. However on December 30 Sheldon Gang member Hillory Clements was killed by the Saltis-McErlane Gang and in retaliation the Sheldon Gang killed Saltis gunmen Charlie Hubacek and Frank Koncil on March 11, 1927.
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Although news accounts of period often reported Capone's birthplace as Sicily or Naples, Capone himself adamantly claimed to have been born in Brooklyn. The two major biographies, namely Luciano J. Iorizzo's Al Capone: A Biography and John Kobler's Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone, both claim his birthplace as Brooklyn, New York.