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18th amendment is passed
the 18th amendment is passed banning alcohol -
Dion O'Banion is killed
dion o'banion is killed inside his flower shop, after setting up johnny torio -
Capone and Torrio are attacked
North Side Gang members Hymie Weiss, George "Bugs" Moran and Vincent "Schemer" Drucci followed the limousines that Al Capone and Johnny Torrio were riding in to a restaurant, at south 55th Street and west State Street. Both limousines were fired on in a hail of gunfire, but neither Capone, nor Torrio were hurt. However, Torrio's chauffer and dog were killed in the attack. -
Johnny torrio attempted assassanation
johnny torrio is almost killed -
Torrio attacked
North Side Gang members again ambush Johnny Torrio as he returned from a Loop shopping trip with his wife. The gunmen shot him several times and wounded him and his chauffeur, Robert Barton. As George "Bugs" Moran was about to kill the wounded Torrio, the gun misfired and Moran was forced to flee as police arrived on the scene. For two weeks after he was shot, it looked like Torrio would die, but he recovered. -
Al capone takes over the south side gang
al capone takes control of the gang after johnny torrio gives it over -
Capone Ambushed
Using 10 cars in a successive motorcade, North Side Gang leader Hymie Weiss and his crew ambushed Outfit boss Al Capone with a cavalcade of bullets during his stop at the Hawthorne Inn, in Cicero, IL -
vincent drucci killed
Arrested after being taken into police custody for perpetrating election violence, North Side Gang leader Vincent "The Schemer" Drucci was shot four times and killed by CPD Detective Dan Healy, while Drucci was in police custody. According to one report, the shooting was highly controversial. -
salvatore killed
Aiello gang member Salvatore Canale was killed outside his home in Chicago -
st valentines day massacre
al capones gang members line up 7 of bugs morans gang members along a wall and kill them -
Untouchables
Chicago-boy Elliot Ness returned to the City as a U.S. Bureau of Prohibition agent, under the U.S. Treasury Department, with his, "Untouchables," to try to stop the flow of illegal booze and bring down the Capone empire -
chicago gang war ends
the war between south and north side ends -
joe aiello killed
joe is killed after trying to get a hotel cook to posion al capone -
Al capone sent to jail
al capone sentenced to 11 years in federal prision for tax evasion -
al capone dies
al capone dies of a stroke -
Bugs moran dies
moran dies of cancer in prision