A red-brick house in Chicago that notorious mobster Al Capone once lived in has been sold for $226,000.
The 2,820-square-foot two-flat on Prairie Avenue, sold for more than double its original asking price of $109,900.
Capone first moved into the property with his mother and sister in 1923 after the family relocated to Chicago from New York.
The names of Capone's mother Teresina and his wife Mae were on the title deeds and it was purchased at the time for a modest $5,000.
A red-brick house in Chicago, (pictured), that notorious mobster Al Capone once lived in has been sold for $226,000
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)
Listing agent Ryan Smith of Re/Max Properties told the Chicago Tribune: 'We had like 80 offers on it. We had a lot of press on it, so I think that helped it out.'
He added: 'I have no idea what the buyers want to do with it. It needs to be modernized to today’s standards.'
The house was built in 1909 and sits on an extra-wide lot. The two-flat has had a number of owners since the Capone family.
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.
A previous owner listed it in 2009 for $450,000, which dropped to $179,900, before taking it off the market in 2016, according to the Chicago Tribune.
The most recent owner lost it to foreclosure in 2018, a real estate agent told the station.
In 1989, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks and the Illinois Historic Sites Advisory Council both rejected bids to make the house an official landmark.His mother lived in the Park Manor home until she died in 1952 at age 84.
The seller first listed the two-flat in February. It has six bedrooms, hardwood floors, wood trim and molding, and large, octagonal living rooms in each unit.
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
Some of the furnishings in the house date back to the 1950s and it has been widely reported that Capone built a tunnel that led from the home's basement to a detached garage to evade police watch.
Born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, to Italian immigrant parents, Al Capone went on to become the most infamous gangster in American history.
It was when Capone's father died in 1920 that he entered into a
