Prohibition-era gangster Al "Scarface" Capone has become synonymous with Chicago, despite the city's efforts to ignore him.
Here are some significant events in his life:
1899: Born Alphonse Capone on Jan. 17 in New York.
1919: Capone, a member of Frankie Yale's gang, is sent to Chicago to lay low after brutally beating a man. He goes to work at gangster James "Big Jim" Colosimo's Four Deuces club and becomes a protege of gangster John Torrio.
1925: Torrio — in charge of a bootlegging, gambling and prostitution operation — is shot and turns over control to Capone.
1929: Capone's men, some dressed as police officers, gun down seven members of Bugs Moran's gang on Feb. 14 in a garage on the North Side in what became known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Capone has an airtight alibi: He was in Florida.
1931: Capone is convicted of income-tax evasion and sentenced to federal prison. He is released after serving seven years.
1947: His mind ravaged by syphilis, Capone suffers a stroke and dies of cardiac arrest four days later, on Jan. 25.
Sources: "Mr. Capone," by Robert J. Schoenberg; Chicago Historical Society.