Despite numerous criminal charges including violence, smuggling, bootlegging, and murder, authorities failed to punish him.

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 25, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Front page flashback: Jan. 25, 1947 ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A sharp-eyed boy who noticed that the vintage radio inside gangster Al Capone’s former Philadelphia prison cell wasn’t historically accurate has delivered a replacement.