Onetime home port for Scarface Al Capone’s mob, Cicero, Ill. has become a U. S. household synonym for murder and vice. There fell Assistant State’s Attorney William McSwiggin under gangland bullets.

Miami-Dade’s longstanding connection to Al Capone, probably the most famous organized crime boss in the 20th century, has come to an unceremonious, rubble-filled end. The murderous gangster was once ...

CICERO -- Corruption and in-your-face politics have marked this gritty suburb west of Chicago since the days when Al Capone ran his bootlegging operation here, and those dubious traditions are still ...