The Downfall of Public Enemy No. Valentine’s Day Massacre shocked the special valentine’s day gifts for him on February 14, 1929, when Chicago’s North Side erupted in gang violence.

Gang warfare ruled the streets of Chicago during the late 1920s, as chief gangster Al Capone sought to consolidate control by eliminating his rivals in the illegal trades of bootlegging, gambling and prostitution. From 1924 to 1930, the city of Chicago gained a widespread reputation for lawlessness and violence. Capone, who took over from his boss Johnny Torrio in 1925. George “Bugs” Moran was on his way to the garage in Chicago at the time of the St. A few days later, he told reporters “Only Capone kills like that. Reached at his Florida home for comment on the murders, Capone offered his own opinion: “The only man who kills like that is Bugs Moran. Over the years, Al Capone consolidated control over most of Chicago’s crime rackets by ruthlessly gunning down his rivals.

1929, reaching a high of 64 murders in one year during that time. Valentine’s Day Chicago’s gang war reached its bloody climax in the so-called St. Moran, ran his bootlegging operations out of a garage at 2122 North Clark Street. Police could find only a few eyewitnesses, but eventually concluded that gunmen dressed as police officers had entered the garage and pretended to be arresting the men. Though Moran and others immediately blamed the massacre on Capone’s gang, the famous gangster himself claimed to have been at his home in Florida at the time.