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CHICAGO – In the pantheon of Chicago crime fighters, nobody has the worldwide reputation of Eliot Ness. He’s the Prohibition agent who brought down Al Capone, the principled lawman in a city awash in ...

ELIOT NESS: THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN HERO By Douglas Perry Viking, $27.95, 295 pages Eliot Ness, who died in 1957 at age 55, is once again in the news. In January, Sen. Dick Durbin, Illinois ...

LOS ANGELES - Robert Stack, whose granite-eyed stare and menacing baritone spelled trouble for television's fictional criminals in "The Untouchables" and real ones in "Unsolved Mysteries," died at his ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Robert Stack, whose granite-eyed stare and menacing baritone spelled trouble for television's fictional criminals in ``The Untouchables'' and real ones in ``Unsolved Mysteries,'' ...

Our impressions of well known historical figures are frequently derived from television programs. This reviewer’s image of the legendary Eliot Ness had been shaped by watching reruns of the hit TV ...

Eliot Ness was a famed agent who later became the top executive at bank services company Diebold Inc. Part of his compensation appears to have been company stock, sparking a new legal fight between ...

CHICAGO - In the pantheon of Chicago crime fighters, nobody has the worldwide reputation of Eliot Ness. He's the Prohibition agent who brought down Al Capone, the principled lawman in a city awash in ...

Robert Stack, the tough-guy hero of TV's "Untouchables," was remembered Thursday as a real-life softie. Stack, 84, was found dead of a heart attack Wednesday evening at his home by his wife, Rosemarie ...

Veteran actor Robert Stack, who earned an Emmy as the tough-guy hero of TV's "Untouchables" and an Oscar nomination at the height of his movie fame in the 1950s, has died. He was 84. Stack, 84, was ...