Before he became the most notorious gangster in American history, Al Capone lived at a modest two story Chicago red-brick home - and now it could be yours for just $109,000.
Listed for sale on the week of the 90th anniversary of the gruesome St. Valentines Day Massacre, Capone moved into the south-side home in 1923, having arrived from New York to aide the criminal operations of then Chicago Outfit mob boss Johnny Torrio.
Later known as 'Scarface', Capone purchased the six-bedroom property for $5000 and lived there with his wife Mae, his mother Teresina, and his sister Mafalda Maritote.
According to a Chicago Tribune news clipping from 1927, Capone 'was virtually a prisoner' at the home, with a police car often surveying for criminal misdeeds outside of the property on Prairie Avenue.
Al Capone moved into the home from New York in 1923 to work for the Chicago Outfit mob boss Johnny Torrio
Considered a 'prisoner' at the home, Capone installed a secret tunnel from the basement to the garage to evade police watch (pictured: A police car sits outside the home in 1925)
To evade their watch, the infamous bootlegger installed a secret tunnel from the home's basement to the garage.
The door believed to be the entrance way to the secret passage is still in place today.
Equipped with hardwood floors and high ceilings the abode still bares a number of other characteristics the Capone's originally furnished it with.
'The kitchen on the first floor is probably from the '50s,' Ryan Smith, the estate agent representing the property for Crain's, said.
'That could have still been there when his mother lived there. That doesn't appear to have been updated at any time.'
Teresina Capone, lived at the home for nearly 30 years until her death in 1952.
It was purchased on January 15, 1953 and has been on and off the market ever since.
Al Capone is considered to be one of America's most notorious gangsters, having overseen the US' largest bootlegging operation in Chicago during the Prohibition
Equipped with hardwood floors and high ceilings the abode still bares a number of other characteristics the Capone's originally furnished it with
'Scarface' lived at the home with his mother, wife and sister. His mother, Terisina Capone, lived at the property until her death in 1952
Capone bought the property for just $5000 and its been on and off the market formuch of the last 10 years
The property has been on and off the market ever since. It was listed for $450,000 in 2009, but is now listed for just a quarter of that, at $109,900 (pictured: the secret tunnel entrance door is still present at the property, though the tunnel itself has been filled in
Much of the home is considered to be relatively untouched since Teresina occupied the home. In a 1929 Chicago Tribune news clipping,noted the home's 'soft lighting and velvet rugs'
In 2009 the 2,820-square-foot unit was listed for a handsome $450,000, and saw a 50 percent slash to the price tag in 2014 to $225,000.
It's last owner lost the home to foreclosure in 2018.
And now the property is going for an absolute steal for just $109,900 - a far cheaper alternative than Capone's Miami Beach mansion that was put on the market last year for $15 million.
