April 2, 2009
Gangster legend Al Capone’s onetime house in Chicago is on the market for $450K
The six-room, two-flat house on Chicago’s South Side that gangster legend Al Capone once owned has come on the market for $450,000.
The Chicago Tribune’s Joel Hood broke the story today that the two-flat, at 7244 S. Prairie Avenue in Chicago’s Park Manor neighborhood, has hit the market.
Built in 1914, the two-flat has ornate tile work and has been owned by its current owner, Barbara Hogsette, who is selling it so she can move to California to be with her son, the Tribune reported. “The time is right for me to move on and let someone else in,” Hogsette told the Tribune.
Capone bought the brick house for his mother, Theresa, and his wife, Mae, in 1923 for $5,500, the Tribune reported. The Prohibition-era gangster lived in the home himself from 1923 until 1931 — when he was imprisoned. After Capone was released from prison, he moved to Florida, never again occupying the house before his death in 1947. The Capone family unloaded the house in 1953.
A short-lived effort in the late 1980s to get the home landmarked was withdrawn after protests from Italian-Americans.
Filed under Celebrity Homes, Famous Homes by Bob Goldsborough
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well i love to listen to his story bout his hood but like he maybe be a person that thw world would not forget get he may have storys that been in his past but like i said not sure. if he had kids his kids wouldnt be like him i guess? well not sure. if he is a cool peroson for his world but i think he shoudl but he is a cool person all he need is to change nd nobody would never say shxt bout him like people do but at least thts not ME. :]
- _ - love his life. i guess ;\ :]
Yeah,I bet his kids were like him. All cool and shxt and they could be famous like their dad too. Their kids, like his grandkids and great-grandkids are probably cool as well. You know? I bet he was cool as hxll. I would like to have heard his stories. You know? He probably had good fxcking stories and they were like real hood shxt. Cause like he was the first and best gangsta of all time. Yeah, I’m Italian and I would have wanted his house/home landmarked. Yeah, Al Capone, a famous dude!
he was a real, i liked him much, i need to be like him.
I read a book about him. “Al Capone Does My shirts” very good book![:
I just married into the capone family…. none are like Al, but yes they are all cool good people.
Omg i imagin live like that i also like to be a gangster just dont like when police start to mess with this shit : DD
No… no you didn’t.
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yeasir luvin it
I DIDNT KNO HE WAS WHITE
sup
gangsta
bitchz dnt no shet
serious gangster
My Great-Grandfather was a carpenter in Illinois. He built Speakeasses for Al Capone. He might have been different but he took car of his crew.
yea he is a pretty cool person! I would love to chill with him…that would be badass!! And i also would love to hear all the stories from him in real person because they seem so interesting and i would love to know the whole truth from him and what his life was like! Sometimes i wish i was back from the olden days because there were so much funner and cooler shit then nowadays!!
i think al capone was the god i like al couse he is the god if he was still around i would send mad letters with ciggars …. i once seen a show on him at alcatraz and it was bulshit wat the athority did they said they put him in the dungoen meanig the dark room and they said he cought scolos and died
al capon was like my hero hez a true gangster
Big up to him & long live Capone
al capone will never be forgot to me al capone and john dinllinger helped this tramendusly without them we prolly wouldn have as good crime stoppers with out them they are both great people in the wrong place john dillinger when he robbed banks bi standers would put out there money he would say he is here for the banks money they all have a heart al capone is awesome so is john dillinger watch public enimies if you wanna know more about john it has jonny deep in so lomg
ha ha you cant spell…
are u like 15 16yrs old? cuz the way u talk is funny. i dont even know why i’m wasting my time commenting on u but it needs to be said. you sound realy foolish and un educated..
wow Al was a hit
He wasnt a “gangster” He was a mobster, I look upo to him cuz im in tha mafia myself…
A real O-G
wow….
WTF?!? Are all of you people serious?
Can anybody that has posted on this board pass an 8th grade equivalency test? I have a seven year old nephew that can spell better than this. Go back to grammar school people… and try to pay attention this time.
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