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A short-lived effort in the late 1980s to get the home landmarked was withdrawn after protests from Italian-Americans.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
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