10 ADDITIONAL SURPRISING FACTS ABOUT ELIOT NESS By Max Allan Collins When Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago (by A. Brad Schwartz and myself) appeared in 2018, we presented ten surprising facts about Eliot Ness. Now, in our new non-fiction work – Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher: […]
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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 […]