Al Capone got an icy reception when he arrived in Miami Beach in 1928. Whether he was winter-weary like other Northern tourists was immaterial; Miami saw him as a blight on its reputation.

But it was also the bizarre nature of Al Capone’s death that further differentiated him from his peers. While he was still a ...

Said Chairman Crosby, famed for his personal newspaper advertisements against Prohibition (TIME, Feb. 16): “If invited, I will go to Chicago to meet Al Capone in his own territory, without gun p ...