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Nov 9, 2009 · The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre shocked the world 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 ...
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang on Saint Valentine's Day 1929. The men were gathered at a Lincoln Park, Chicago garage on the morning of February 14, 1929. They were lined up against a wall and shot by four unknown assailants, two of whom were disguised as police ...
- February 14, 1929, 10:30 am (CST)
- Two Thompson submachine guns, Two shotguns
- Warehouse at Dickens and Clark in Lincoln Park, Chicago
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Al Capone. St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, mass murder of a group of unarmed bootlegging gang members in Chicago on February 14, 1929. The bloody incident dramatized the intense rivalry for control of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition era in the United States. Disguising themselves as policemen, members of the Al Capone gang ...
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Apr 4, 2024 · How The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Unfolded. Chicago History Museum Seven of Bugs Moran’s men were killed in the attack, their corpses immortalized in photos of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre like this one. Around 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 14, 1929, four men approached Moran’s warehouse at 2122 North Clark Street. Two were dressed as ...
Feb 2, 2009 · An infamous mafia massacre occurred on 14 February 1929. Al Capone's mugshot, June 1931. Prohibition in the United States gave a massive boost to crime. In Chicago in the 1920s gangs made fortunes from illegal liquor and the associated protection and vice rackets. The relationships between them were uneasy and there were shifting alliances ...
St. Valentine's Day Massacre. St. Valentine's Day Massacre, 1929. Posing as police officers conducting a routine raid on February 14, 1929, four men entered a warehouse at 2122 N. Clark Street, used by George “Bugs” Moran and his gang to store liquor . The impostors lined up six gang members and a hanger-on against a wall, produced machine ...
