Frank Nitti, center, known variously as the chief lieutenant of Al Capone, and as the real power of the gang “of which Capone is but a figurehead,” was arrested in 1930. He was seized by Bureau of ...
On this day, March 19, in 1943, Chicago mob boss Frank Nitti sat down on an Illinois Central railroad branch line and shot himself in the head. Nitti’s suicide took place the day before he was ...
When Al Capone was sent to prison for tax evasion in 1931, many wondered who could fill the void left by Chicago’s most infamous mob boss. The answer came in the form of Frank Nitti, Capone’s trusted ...
Democrats get to claim the political benefits of wild spending, while the GOP is stuck playing the enforcer. People who remember the old comic strip “Peanuts” will recall an often-repeated situation ...