al capone..?

Question

if there is any al capone buffs out there, i am wondering where his hideouts were in the midwest. i know he was famous in chicago, and went to rockford, and some small towns outside of rockford, i was wondering if anyone knew where, or had any links to see photos. thanks

Answer 1

Well hideout is a subjective term - - - a man with Al's gonads 'laid low,' took a vacation away from The WIndy City especially on major holidays as noted - - - as for places that Al frequented, it is a lot like that old adage 'George Washington Slept Here,' Lots of places like to claim that Al was around and certain places do have official bragging rights.
Before I throw some links at you a few places off the top of the ole noggin. Kansan City Kansas was a favorite 'rest stop,' its civic leaders known to be complacent and if things did get hot one could hop over to Kansas City Missouri. Lexington Kentyucky was popular in that it was a 'quiet' town yet a person could be in Chicago within a couple of hours. But most likely the favorite haunt of Al Capone and others was Little Rock Arkansaw and the Hot SPrings where there could count on booze & a good massage along with the healing waters..

Here goes...

http://www.alcaponehideout.com/

http://www.uncommondays.com/states/wi/places/hideout.htm
"" Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, built a gangland hideout in Wisconsin's North woods near Couderay in the mid-1920s. Today, 40-minute tours of this estate take viewers through Capone's living quarters in the impressive main lodge and around the ground's 9 additional buildings including the gun tower, bunkhouse and jail cell, a single-person cell which is surrounded by a small exercise yard. The estate's 18-inch thick walls were built to withstand potential firepower from rival gangs as well as the Feds.


The Hideout

12101 W Cty Rd CC
Couderay, WI 54828

Call [phone] for days and hours of operation. Ask when the last tour begins, and if you might be interested in dining, check on serving hours. ""

http://www.nmmagazine.com/FEATURES/currentfeature.html
"""As published in the July 2007 issue of New Mexico Magazine)


The green and rugged Jémez Mountains rise above the desert of north-central New Mexico. Nestled among these mountains, ringed by walls of jagged and wooded lava rock, is a valley. Rolling through this valley is a meadow. All across this meadow are the faint traces of an old ranch, and hidden among these traces is a legend.

In the late 1920s, the legend says, "Scarface" Al Capone, Chicago's notorious Prohibition-era crime boss, used this mountain ranch as a getaway when he needed a place to hole up for a while.

"Capone was here, but he was kept pretty well hidden," remembers Mary Caldwell, a lifelong mountain resident. "He had a hideout. There's no question he was here."

"He used to come by, and when he'd come by he'd just stop in and have dinner with you," added Jack Caldwell, Mary's son. "There weren't a lot of people here back then."
But one person who was around back then, and someone who may have known Capone, was an eccentric Chicago businessman named Seth Seiders.
Rumors or not, there are literally dozens of stories that place Capone and his henchmen all over these mountains. Employees at the Jémez Mountain Bathhouse, in Jémez Springs, claim that Capone liked to drive down from his hideaway for a soak in the bathhouse's famous tubs. Residents tell of Capone visiting a nearby liquor store, an area church and Seiders' other Jémez property, on the edge of Jémez Springs. That property, known as Rancho Chico, featured a small stone hotel, and was bought and developed when Seiders' wife got tired of Rancho Rea.

All rumors aside, Capone did pass through New Mexico. In December 1927, Capone and some his cohorts boarded a train on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. They rode from Chicago to Los Angeles, passing through both Santa Fe and Albuquerque along the way. The police and the media quickly hounded them out of town, and Capone and his men hurried onto another train, headed back through Albuquerque, back through Santa Fe and back to Chicago.

So, Capone was in New Mexico, and it is possible that when his train pulled into Albuquerque, he might have considered stopping to see an old acquaintance. Seiders often hired cars to drive guests up from Albuquerque's train station, and it's not impossible that Capone could have been such a guest, discovered the beautiful seclusion of Rancho Rea and returned later when life in Chicago grew too intense.
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This is one of my favorite 'gangster' hideout because I like secret tunnels---

http://www.nebraskalife.com/Capone.asp
""Searching for Scarface
Did Al Capone use O'Neill's Golden Hotel as a hideout? Did a local attorney fear retribution from the nation's most powerful gangster? And what was the secret that lawman “Two-Gun” Hart was hiding?
By Sheryl Schmeckpeper
If you say the name Al Capone to three people in O'Neill, you're likely to hear three different stories that twist, turn and intertwine – just like the mysterious underground tunnels that supposedly snake their way under the streets of this Sandhills town.
Evidence of tunnels still exists in the basement of O'Neill's Golden Hotel. One of the walls has an opening large enough for a man to stand in. After a few steps, the opening narrows and divides into what appears to be two tunnels that lead in different directions.
But why are they there? And where do they go? And are they somehow connected to America 's most famous gangster? ""
The centerpiece of the hotel was – and still is – the marble staircase with a cast iron railing that leads to the second floor. The floor in the lobby is covered with hand-made ceramic tile.
Today, stepping across the threshold of the Golden Hotel, one can almost visualize women in flapper dresses lounging in the lobby while gents in double-breasted suits and felt hats hustle up and down the steps. The blare of a television is one of the few reminders that almost 100 years have passed since the hotel opened its doors.
Supposedly, Al Capone and his fellow mobsters came to O'Neill on the train, stayed at the hotel and used the tunnels to move around town and hide from law enforcement. But why would Capone come to O'Neill? What was the appeal? The unofficial story, some say, is that he brought money from Chicago and laundered it through businesses in the area.

(The complete story appears in the November/December 2006 issue of Nebraska Life Magazine.) ""

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Answer 2

He hunted outside our town and the farm he stayed at still exists. In its day the farm must have been pretty fancy by the brick gate columns in front of the drive. It may only be rumor but I understood the house had secret hallways in it.This is about 55 miles southwest of Chicago.

He was also rumored to have gone to some speakeasy places in Ottawa and Utica, Illinois area a little further west.

There were definitely local families that were involved in the bath-tub gin making and booze running and I knew some of them before they passed away. I was informed one of our strip pits had belonged to Bugs Moran and later became part of one of our landfills.

Answer 3

~Big Al didn't need hideouts. He was front and center with everything he did. He did like to hang at the estate in Miami, especially on Valentine's Day.

Answer 4

Golden Hotel Oneill Ne

Answer 5

He is known to have passed through Americus GA, on his way to Miami. He signed the hotel registru there under his real name.

Answer 6

Waiting on more answers before I share my view