involvment with the mafia
Young Al Capone and his mother.
Al Capone was born to poor Italian immigrants who were looking for a better life for their family in America. Al Capone lived a normal life with no involvement with the mafia up until the sixth grade when he started falling behind. After an incident at the school Capone promised to never go back to school and made friends with a mobster, Johnny Torrio who eventually became Capone's way into the Mafia. When Torrio moved the two continued to stay in touch but Capone worked legit jobs with no connection to the mafia until 1917 when Torrio introduce Capone to Frankie Yale. Yale gave Capone a job working as a bartender and bouncer, introducing Capone to the mobster lifestyle. In 1920 after his father died Capone moved to Chicago with Torrio and finally got a powerful job in the Mafia. Eventually Capone took over Torrio's business and became well known in 1920's society effecting the way that the common person viewed the Mafia. America fell in love with Capone, and began thinking of him as a Robin Hood of the time also effecting the way American's viewed organized crime.