USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Capone was sent to Chicago and helped Torrio rid the city of their underworld competition. After Torrio retired, Capone became Chicago’s de facto crime czar, running gambling, prostitution, and bootlegging rackets and expanding his territories by gunning down rivals.

Detailed explanation-2: -While the core of Capone’s business was illicit bootlegging during Prohibition, Capone’s overall business acumen allowed him to expand his influence throughout Chicago as a whole.

Detailed explanation-3: -Capone made a deal with the Peaky Blinders and had Changretta killed to take over his bootlegging operations in New York. The Blinders begin to supply Capone with alcohol soon thereafter.

Detailed explanation-4: -Not only did he largely control the sale of liquor to Chicago’s ten thousand speakeasies; he controlled the sources supply, it was said, as far as Canada and the Florida coast. He had amassed, and concealed, a fortune the extent of which nobody knew; It was said by federal agents to amount twenty millions.