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Will the Obama crime family but Al Capone's house?

For sale: Six-room two-flat in Chicago's Park Manor neighborhood; ornate tile work; impressive brick exterior; an underground cellar big enough to hide some cash or ditch a tommy gun. The home at 7244 S. Prairie Ave. once owned by mobster Al Capone and his family has hit the market for $450,000. It's a hefty sum considering similar two-flats in that working-class South Side neighborhood are selling for $180,000 to $230,000. But no other home in Chicago can match the history of the modest brick house that has had just two owners since Capone's mother died in 1952. "I'm looking for people who would be interested in the historical value of this home," said Patrice Brazil, the Coldwell Banker agent who's listing it. "It's an excellent home, and it's in great shape." Records show the Capones bought the home for $5,500 in 1923 after moving from Brooklyn, N.Y., where Al Capone's notorious business interests began. Capone centered his bootlegging, gambling and prostitution enterprises in Cicero and later moved them to the old Lexington Hotel at Cermak Road and Michigan Avenue. But he was a frequent guest of his mother's, famously barricading himself inside one December night in 1927 when police threatened to arrest him.

Public Comments

1. no
2. Maybe, but probably not, they already have enough of them don't they?
3. Wrong the Capones or whats left are nice people who live in a south west middle-class suburb in Illinois and don't really care who bought what and when. No word yet on their political affiliation.
4. Sounds like an interesting investment for anyone. The way the housing market is losing value it would be in the best interest to wait. The economy is getting so bad he may be able to pick it up for the same price Capone bought it for-------- This answer didn't hurt any body's feelings did it?
5. I'll buy it when all that money the damn Repugnicans promised me finally trickles down. Like, in about a trillion fricken' years...