When he realized that he was not likely to die at a ripe old age in bed, surrounded by his loved ones, Frankie Yale of Brooklyn began talking about his funeral. He wanted to go out, he said, like a ...

In 1920, New York native Al Capone arrived in Chicago and turned 21 the same day Prohibition was enacted. His nefarious acts became well documented in the Chicago Tribune starting with a car crash in ...

When notorious gangster Al Capone died 70 years ago—on Jan. 25, 1947—it was quietly, like little else in his life. As TIME’s report on Capone‘s death made clear, the scars on his face were the outward ...

Three out of every four televisions in the Chicago area on April 21, 1986 were watching “The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults” as host Geraldo Rivera and an excavation team blasted through concrete walls ...

The most exhilarating live television event of 1986 was the Chicago Bears winning Super Bowl XX, for some. For others, it was a two-hour broadcast from a basement. On April 21, 1986 — 37 years ago — ...