10 ADDITIONAL SURPRISING FACTS ABOUT ELIOT NESS (Eliot Ness was born on April 19 1903, and lived a life of adventure that has catapulted him into the status of a crime fighting legend. He battled organized crime which resulted from the Volstead Act that started all the illegal activities around prohibition. He was a crack […]
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10 Surprising Facts About Al Capone and Eliot Ness
10 Surprising Facts About Al Capone and Eliot Ness AL CAPONE AND ELIOT NESS LIVED ON THE SAME STREET In 1923, Capone purchased a humble two-flat for his family on Chicago’s South Side at 7244 South Prairie Avenue. Five miles down the road, Eliot Ness—then a twenty-year-old student at the University of Chicago—lived […]