1986: Geraldo hosted “The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults” deep inside the former Lexington Hotel in Chicago.

Al Capone’s name has become synonymous with Prohibition-era gang violence. Like many outlaws of the era, he is today ...

Kori Rumore, a journalist at The Chicago Tribune, joins John Landecker on the program to take a look back at Geraldo Rivera ...

on April 4, 1924, during the wake for Salvatore “Frank” Capone, Al’s brother, who was killed during a shootout with the police in Cicero on Election Dy, April 1, 1924. (Chicago Tribune ...

Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio invites Capone to move to Illinois to help run his Prohibition-era alcohol sales operation.

Al Capone got an icy reception when ... The son of Italian immigrants himself, Capone lived in a modest house in a middle-class Chicago neighborhood with his wife and son, his mother and siblings.

A front-page story in the Chicago Tribune the next day captured the anguish of most Chicagoans: “O, God, why did this happen.” 1986: Geraldo hosted “The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults ...