Essay

=Chicago History Fair Essay=

This paragraph is explaining what Al Capone was doing before and during his time in Chicago. Before the Al Capone came to Chicago he was involved in two gangs when he was a kid one gang was called the Brooklyn rippers and the other was called the forty thieves juniors. He also dropped out of school when he was fourteen and he was in sixth grade. He lived in a bad neighborhood and he joined another gang in Manhattan they were called the notorious five points. He also worked at the Harvard in as the bouncer and as a bartender. In the year 1918 Al Capone met a girl her name was Mary Mae Coughlin at a dance. Then in the same year they had a baby boy named Albert Sonny Francis they got married the same year and the same month it was on the thirtieth in Brooklyn New York they were teenagers at the time. Al Capone arrived in Chicago in 1919 because he murdered two guys and Al Capone sent a rival gang member to the hospital and Yale a guy he worked for sent him to Chicago. He then moved his family into a house and Al Capone was going to work for John Torrio a friend of Yale. John Torrio had Al Capone managing his business as a bootlegger. In 1922 he became John Torrios partner in brothels and other places. Al Capone became the boss because John Torrio had to leave Chicago because he got shot by a rival gang. The mayor of Chicago tried to run Al Capone out of Chicago because he thought Al Capone was bad for the mayors political image. The most notorious killing that Al Capone was involved in was the St. Valentines Day Massacre, because Al Capone's men killed seven of the members of Moran's gang, the six of them were from moran's gang and the other guy was a friend. Al Capone's first time in prison was because he was carrying a gun in May 1929. In 1931 Al Capone was sentenced eleven years in prison because of tax invasion. He owed a lot of money because of the tax invasion. He was sent to Atlanta to start his eleven year sentence.

This paragraph is about the debate. The conflict in that time period was that Besides the legal pressure, It was him against police action, and competition from rival gangs. Al Capone still sucessfully managed to established his illegal alcohol business.

This paragraph is about how the conflict was resolved.

It affects me in the here and now because prohibition was not illegal then and now it is. The people in the now and days don't have an underground tunnel in Chicago anymore the alcohol is sold in stores and can only be bought by people of a certain age. We the people of chicago don't have someone like Al Capone that kills the people of rival gangs as much and Chicago has not had a big killing since the St. Valentines Day Massacre. Now and days not many kids drop out of school in sixth grade but more kids join gangs when there younger and end up getting hurt. That is why it affects me.

This paragraph is about how Al Capone affected people in the present time. He affected people in the present time because of all the killings they had back then everyone saw Al Capon as the bad guy. Because he made it on the top 21 most wanted. He killed a lot of people and did a lot of bad things and went to jail a lot. When he got arrested for carrying around a gun in public it looked bad towards him because it makes people think that he hes a bad guy. Al;so the mayor of Chicago wantd to run Al Capone out of Chicago because he was a bad political image on the mayor. He had a lot of people out to get him in trouble when he does crimes.

This paragraph is about what I learned from Al Capone. What I learned about Al Capone is that he grew up in a bad neighborhood he was a smart boy but dropped out of school when he was fourteen. He wasn't so much of a bad guy what made him a bad guy was him killing the bad guys. He was a responsible man and took care of the things he needed to take care of. He made drinking kind of possible because he started the tunnel in the undergrounds of Chicago. He owned a lot of businesses and had a lot of people that were trying to send him to jail or prison and get him in trouble.