@ 05:43 PM (21 months, 2 days ago)
This innocuous tree at right is all that's left of the site where the St.Valentine's Day Massacre occurred on this date in 1929.
It's at 2212 N. Clark Street in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. Almost eighty years ago, four of Al Capone's henchmen, posing as police officers, drew machine guns from their overcoats and murdered six members of Bugs Moran's gang. Apparently, Capone didn't like Moran cutting into his market.
No one was ever charged with the crime, and the warehouse where the slayings occurred was torn down in 1969. Now these few unassuming trees sit on an open lot at the south end of an apartment building.
The FBI, as part of it's online history, released 107 pages of files from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. They include gems like memos from secret agents asking for their cover to not be blown and correspondence from J. Edgar Hoover to an editor at Cosmopolitan magazine about the FBI's lack of knowledge on the crime. Intriguing reading on a cold day.
