Al Capone's Soup Kitchen: A Charitable Front

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In November of 1930, Al Capone opened a soup kitchen in Chicago that became the largest in the city, serving three meals a day to the unemployed.
Capone's soup kitchen reportedly served dinner to 5,000 people on Thanksgiving of 1930.
Elliot Ness, a young Prohibition agent, led a team in raiding Capone's hidden breweries and arresting the men working there.
Capone was admired for his cleverness in setting up an illicit network of breweries that produced beer.

In 1934, a man collecting driftwood along the Lake Erie shore found a human torso on the beach. No one could figure out what had happened. Over the next several years, more bodies were discovered. Eventually, a coroner assembled something he called the “Torso Clinic” to work on the case. It was made up of about 30 people – doctors, professors, police officers, and a young Prohibition agent named Eliot Ness.

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