Because of the lawlessness that Prohibition inspired, as well as the prospect of jobs that legal alcohol production could ...

George Remus controlled one-third of illicit liquor sales during prohibition. His operation was once bigger than Al Capone's, ...

Editor’s note: This is part one of a three-part special report on “The Capones in North Dakota.” Can you imagine the stress on poor old Vincenzo Capone as he tried to hide his real identity? What ...

It appeared to be a barbershop. But hidden behind a wall of this Minneapolis business, illegal drinks fueled secret revelry in the 1920s. What today is a kitschy bar called the Chatterbox Pub was once ...

Prohibition may be over, but our fascination with the era continues with NYC’s themed lawn parties and interactive theater pieces. The William Barnacle Tavern in the East Village, however, housed an ...

For three months near the end of Prohibition, the infamous Ma Barker and members of her crime gang lived in a nondescript duplex in West St. Paul. The house, built in 1927 at 1031 S. Robert St., is a ...

The passage of Prohibition in 1919 unwittingly sparked one of the more violent decades in Illinois history. The liquor still flowed freely in much of Illinois, with bootlegging operations of various ...