In 1929 Chicago, Federal investigator Eliot Ness struggles in the fight against Al Capone. He decide...

"Chicago, May 5, 1932. After 7 months of legal delays, Al Capone... was on his way to federal prison...

January 16, 1935. Oklawaha, Florida. Eliot Ness, along with Bill Youngfellow and Martin Flaherty, ar...

Gangs have divided Chicago in 2-- the northside is run by the Bertshce mob, the southside by the Via...

March 2, 1932. Gangster Joe Carroll, sidekick of George "Bugs" Moran, kidnaps 9-year-old Larry Hallo...

Summer 1933, Chicago. The mobsters were branching out from liquor, going into the numbers racket, ca...

February 1931. In Churchill Downs, the entries for the Kentucky Derby are closed. Tight-fisted Dutch...

Eliot Ness is lured south of the border to retrieve a witness who will help his case. Only it's a se...

April 19, 1931. New York City. Every 48 hours, more than 25 million pounds of fruits and vegetables...

In the latter part of 1933, there was an epidemic of truck hijackings in the states of Virginia, Mar...

March 1935. One of the toughest mobsters in New York City is Dutch Schultz. He and his mob were resp...

Chicago, October 1932. The depths of the Great Depression, marked by unemployment and poverty. The...

The night of August 3, 1933, outside the Louisburg Federal Prison in Pennsylvania. After serving 2...

30 miles from Chicago, the (fictitious) Calum City; population: 10,000.  Judge Leon Zabo is running...

Chicago, March 31, 1933. Giuseppe ""Joe"" Bucco is at home when he gets a visit from his wife's cou...

1934. The Depression was over 4 years old, and Al Capone was in Alcatraz. Many of the rackets had...

Spring 1931. Gangland warfare had broken out again with sudden violence in the streets of St. Louis...

Chicago, February 1932. Crime has been spreading all over, from the dark alleys of Cicero to the so...

Little Egypt (not the Belly Dancer) was the city of Morraine, the heart of the gangster-infected are...

Chicago. Prior to May 1934, robbing state banks was not a federal offense. Bandits only had local...

Movie: ""The Gun of Zangara"" Chicago. November 9, 1932. FDR has just been elected president, and...

Movie: ""The Gun of Zangara"" (continued) Nitti's plenty sore! Mayor Cermak's stepped-up law enfor...

March 31, 1934; Prohibition is over. Al Capone is still running things from Alcatraz, his new money...

September 1932. The Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, 430 miles west-southwest of Chicag...

New York City: Yankee Stadium, the Bronx. On the evening of June 8, 1933, Max Baer knocked out Max...

Chicago, 1931. Eliot Ness and his men had cracked the bootleg empire of Al Capone, by smashing his...

New York City. Saturday, September 23, 1933. Top rackets boss Milo Sullivan is the head of ""Crime...

Chicago.  (year?)* The jury had been out for 12 hours, on the case Ness had worked so hard on, tryi...

1934. Prohibition had been repealed (the Volstead Act ran from January 17, 1920 - April 7, 1933)....

Chicago, March 1931. Eliot Ness and his men were doing raid after raid on Capone's speakeasies and...

New York, 1931. While many people were unemployed and poor during the Depression, gangster-owned sp...

Chicago. By the middle of 1933, Eliot Ness and his Untouchables had almost checked the manufacture...

New Jersey, the night of April 16, 1931. Waxey Gordon, the undisputed beer baron of New York, is mu...

Chicago, late Spring 1932. There is public protest about the increase in drug addiction. Charlie S...

Chicago, late Summer 1932.  Eliot Ness and his men had stemmed the supply of narcotics coming into t...

Detroit, August 1932. The notorious Purple Gang-- long synonymous with terror in beer, booze, labor...

Chicago, September 8, 1932. That night, a convoy of 4 trucks, which had crossed the Canadian border...

New York, April 1931. Gangster Larry Fay, a former student of Al Capone, has his greasy fists firml...

The night of May 3rd, 1934. A traveling carnival is at the Midway, 35 miles outside of Cleveland....

May 8, 1931. The special U.S. mail train, coming from Rock Island, is stopped by emergency flares o...

Movie: ""The Alcatraz Express"" (Disclaimer shown on screen) ""The events portrayed in this film ar...

Movie: ""The Alcatraz Express"" (continued) Sunday, August 19, 1934. At 2:30 a.m., the Big Train...

Chicago, December 1931. With Al Capone in prison, the bootlegging part of his empire was split in 2...

Chicago.  November 9, 1932.  Al Capone was in prison, and Frank Nitti was running his Organization. ...

On the night of May 25, 1931, 2 trucks are rolling into K.C., carrying $1-million worth of Jamaica G...

Summer 1931, Chicago.  Eliot Ness and his Untouchables had smashed most of the big breweries owned b...

September 8, 1934. A cruise ship from Cuba to New Jersey has caught fire. There are over 300 passe...

1932. Just 3 weeks after Al Capone was convicted on the ironic charge of income tax evasion, the Ju...

Mid-October 1932. The nation's attention is on the election campaign between incumbent president He...

April 11, 1932. Millionaire building contractor Thomas B. Randall is the target of a kidnapping; he...

November 1932. FDR was moving to end Prohibition, and the crime syndicate was already shifting away...

October 11, 1932.  Chicago.  Less than one month before the elections, David Mantley, running for St...

Ring of Terror-- Boxing ring, that is. July 1931, the Chicago Sports Arena was like a hundred other...

Autumn 1934. An armored truck, loaded with the special paper used in printing U.S. currency, is hea...

Chicago, last week of April 1933. Frank Nitti is offered a huge quantity of Chinese opium. Ever si...

New York, 1933. Racketeers are poking their greasy fists into every corner of the nation's business...

September 16, 1933. Although Eliot Ness had successfully destroyed The Underground Court (episode #...

Chicago, April 25, 1932. With Capone in prison doing his rap for income tax evasion, his 8 lieutena...

Chicago, the 3rd week of November 1932. Working on an anonymous tip, Eliot Ness and his men raid a...

Chicago, Summer 1931. Nick Acropolis is the new bookmaker in town, his territory is Illinois and th...

Chicago, April 1932. The city is ruled by underworld czars, one of the toughest of which is Nate Ke...

In the summer of 1934, a new gambling device was sweeping the nation: the punchboards. Even though...

By the Summer of 1933, a new wave of crime has engulfed Chicago.  Due to a public outcry for action,...

August 28, 1933. That night, Eliot Ness and his Untouchables, and some undercover plainclothes poli...

In the years following WWI, there was a flood of European immigrants into the USA. In the early 192...

In mid-June 1932, Eliot Ness, having compiled a list of Frank Nitti's breweries & distilleries,...

Chicago, January 1933. Ness and his men raid a speakeasy owned by gangster Mikhail ""Red Mike"" Pro...

September 14, 1932. At 11:30 p.m., Eliot Ness goes to the Odeon movie theatre (not the Odeon Burles...

Chicago, July 1934. Anonymous phone calls have been tipping off Ness and his men to narcotics activ...

1933. Violence and corruption were at an all-time high in Chicago, New York, St. Louis, Detroit, Ka...

New York, middle of 1932. The Syndicate-- headed by Joe Kulak, Louis ""Lepke"" Buchalter and Dutch...

November 1932. Big-time gangster Joe Palakopolous is playing a dangerous game-- he just had his hit...

October 1932, Chicago.  With Capone in the slammer, other bosses are biting off chunks of Capone's e...

1932. Chicago is a thirsty town, consuming 86,000 gallons of booze a day; that's 32-million gallons...

Chicago, March 2, 1932. The hottest nightspot in town is the Club Tunisian, owned by gangster Pete...

New York City. July 23, 1934. The Underworld, which had long made big money by covering bets on ho...

Early November 1931. On West Madison Street, there is a wonderfully diverse neighborhood made up of...

Chicago, October 1932. The only ""beer"" allowed to be served during Prohibition is ""near-beer"" o...

March 3, 1932. It's the great train robbery, on the southbound express headed for Chicago. The Str...

Chicago, August 29, 1934. That night, in the Haymarket district, special agent Daniel Gosden, a pol...

Chicago, after the Repeal of Prohibition; (so this would be around 1934). With booze legal, the rac...

November 7, 1933.  Slot machines are big business; 2,000 of the one-armed bandits rake in $100,000 p...

Chicago. Pete ""The Persuader"" Kalmisky, former bodyguard of Al Capone, accompanied by Syndicate b...

March 4, 1933. The Windy City is getting ready for the Chicago World's Fair, also known as the ""Ce...

May 17, 1932. There are many free soup kitchens in Chicago, but one of them in the skid row section...

New York City; February 4, 1934.  3 months of intensive investigation is paying off for Ness and his...

Chicago, April 16, 1934. Prohibition is over, the main racket is now narcotics. The New York Syndi...

January 1929. Gangster Matt Malloy walks into a sporting goods store; he can't buy an automatic pis...

March 2, 1933. The remote section of the northern Michigan Lake front, 180 miles northeast of Chica...

December 24, 1930. That evening, small-time mug Hap Levinson is playing Santa Claus at the Sackman...

Joe Lassiter is the greatest inside man in the bootlegging racket. He and his sidekick, Nick Karabi...

By mid-June 1932, Eliot Ness and his Untouchables had uncovered and shut down every champagne-produc...

Chicago, the Summer of 1932. There are 12-million unemployed in the U.S.; with less money to spend,...

Chicago, December 18, 1930. On the southside of town, Herbie Catcher is playing 8-ball for 50 cents...

December 12, 1929. That night, gangster Arnie Kurtz is in a car, watching a hit he ordered. Anothe...

Chicago. Right after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. (February 14, 1929.) Ness and his men are s...

1929.* Notorious gangster boss Charlie Radick is dying of leukemia; there'll be no mourning for him...

July 4, 1930.  40,000 horse racing fans fill Arlington Park.  Ness and his men have Arnold ""Spats""...

Chicago, 1929. Mike Brannon's been a cop for 15 years, but now he's being suspended for hospitalizi...

Chicago, October 1932. Within minutes of the time the Globe's top reporter Carlton Edmunds was shot,...

June 1930. Speak owner Louie Akers-- about to go dry and out of business because Guzik couldn't sup...

June 1929.* A body is dumped into Lake Michigan; when it's fished out 3-4 weeks later, on July 10,...

1929. Eliot Ness gets another anonymous phone tip: a big meet at a warehouse on Grover Street, Nitt...

October 16, 1930. Jackson Parker is a small-time bootlegger, he has his henchman Benny deliver bott...

Late Summer 1930. It started in Wichita, Kansas: a staggering gait called the Jake Dance. (we see...

Jazz was born in the Roaring Twenties. It's now 1930, and on Chicago's Gold Coast there's a nightsp...

1933. Prohibition ends. But that doesn't mean the war on crime is over for Eliot Ness and his Unto...

Chicago, Spring 1931.  That night, Ness and his men are in their car; it's an 80 mph chase to catch...

Chicago, 1931. On the Southside, on a dead end street, there is a junkyard-- but it's really a fron...

January 1932. Smalltime bootlegger Al Remp is serving 3-5 years in prison; he's done 3 years and is...

Racketeer Gus Ducek is fingered to be knocked off. But when the car with the hitmen drives towards...

New Jersey waterfront, 1933. Johnny Mizo had been marked for death by the American crime cartel; he...

February 1, 1933. Late that night, John ""The Cropper"" Cropsie, the Enforcer for Jules Flack (boss...

April 28, 1932. Chicago. 3,500 fans are at the arena, watching the end of a 7-day bicycle race. B...

June 25, 1933. Ness and Lee Hobson are called to the Castle, a baronial estate just outside of Chic...

During the blistering summer of 1931, Ness and his men are working tirelessly against both the illic...

April 3, 1931. Vic's Diner, near the Chicago railroad yards; on the surface, no different than a hu...

Chicago, January 1933. Danceland has a big sign, ""30 girls, open until 2 a.m."" Inside, customers...

May 14, 1931. Eliot Ness and his men notice that the top bosses are leaving Chicago: Frank Nitti ha...