Al Capone was an Italian criminal working the streets of America.
his life with petty crime in Brooklyn, New York. After escalating his way up in.
Brooklyn, Capone moved to Chicago for bigger and better things. There Capone.
had prominence supremacy as one of the giant bootlegging forerunners. His.
collected and composed ways, made crime into a business that we see in today's.
mafia. Capone changed crime into a profession, which in turn made it a business.
The word mob or mafia is a title that is often heard. When the name Capone is.
associated with the title, most people think of Capone as the true influence of.
the mob or mafia today. Capone was a man who of the many prohibition leaders,.
lead the way for the mafia in the early 19 hundreds. Due to the prohibition era,.
Al Capone transformed the mafia into today's business like criminal organization.
Organized crime in the 19th century, was an ever booming scene for the average.
citizen. Since the 19th century, crime and business seemed to have gone hand in.
hand since the prohibition days of Capone. Long before Al Capone became involved.
in bootlegging, his excitement in life was the economic opportunity of being a.
gangster on the streets. As soon as Capone reached the legal age of fourteen, he.
dropped out of school to live this economic dream of making money as a gangster.
on the streets. 1.Al Capone was convinced that the opportunities for personal.
advancement and material success were not available through legitimate means,.
and so Capone turned toward the crime profession of bootlegging. Capone was a.
smart man with a mission. 2.His mission was to succeed as a criminal in a.
business like matter. Although prohibition was clearly illegal, Capone used his.
prohibition as a business. His attire was that of a rich business man, along.
with his ways of talking were also that of a business man. Everything Capone did.
was set to flow like a business, and prohibition help him act out his business.