Chicago in the 1920s was known for being a city of non-stop parties, alcohol, and streets filled with violence. The mastermind pulling the strings was the world's most famous gangster, Al Capone, who used the teachings of Frankie Yale and Johnny Torrio to become the most powerful man in the underworld. He was a man of raw brutality and wit, paying off anyone who wanted to help him gain power and killing anyone who didn't want to. Al Capone was not like any ordinary criminal, he aimed to make the public like him as a person, but he considered killing to be part of his business. To this day, whether or not Capone was a criminal mastermind or Robinhood is debatable. What is firmly established is that the wild attitude of the Roaring Twenty is primarily responsible for the formation of Al Capone and the building of the powerful Capone syndicate, as jobs were scarce and organized crime, although dangerous, provided a stable income. Alphonse "Al" Gabriel Capone was born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, to a family of Italian immigrants. His father, Gabrielle Capone, was a respected barber and his mother, Teresina Raiola, a seamstress. Both left Naples for America with big dreams, but they only encountered difficulties in Brooklyn While living in Brooklyn, Teresina gave birth to nine children; Mafalda and finally Alfonso Capone Times were tough and living in a shipyard neighborhood filled with crime, Al Capone began living the life of a criminal at an early age. Al Capone joined his first gang at the age of five. years, the Brooklyn Rippers, in 1904. This is where Al Capone's true colors began to shine, as he and the Brooklyn Rippers engaged in petty crimes like stealing a cigar... in the middle of; 'a paper... and finding a cure for his tertiary syphilis, his condition continued to gradually deteriorate. Having no reason to stay in Chicago, Capone and his family decided to move to Miami, Florida to retire where he would spend the rest of his life. In January 1947, Al Capone suffered a stroke and later died of cardiac arrest. He was 48 years old. Al Capone is not the typical rags to riches stories you find in movies. When people talk about being in the right place at the right time, it's one of those tricky situations. Where a man who grew up in the 1920s was exposed to the streets at a young age and turned to crime because it paid off well. Although Al Capone had a strong mentality for success and most likely would have been the CEO of a major corporation in today's society, the 1920s and the Prohibition Era essentially set the path forward so that Al Capone could succeed..