The Outfit

When a popular crime reporter for the Chicago Tribune is executed in broad daylight, all eyes turn to Capone. In the penultimate episode of "Al Capone All American," the heat is on, and Dan and Alana find not all is what it appears as the tides change on the public’s perception of our infamous mobster.

Sources
Historian Mario Gomes's excellent website, My Al Capone Museum (https://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/)
The great Chicago history site Chicagology (https://chicagology.com/)
Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness and the Battle for Chicago by Max Allan Collins & A. Brad Schwartz
All Things Considered by Howard Vincent O'Brien
Capone: The Man and the Era by Laurence Bergreen
Mr. Capone: The Real - and Complete - Story of Al Capone, by Robert J. Schoenberg
Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone by John Kobler
Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend by Deirdre Bair
The Wicked City: Chicago From Kenna to Capone by Curt Johnson with R. Craig Sautter
Al Capone’s Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition by John Binder
Gangland Chicago: Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City by Richard C. Lindberg
Prohibition Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation by Marc Mappen
The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America by Gus Russo
Newspapers and magazines: The Chicago Tribune, The Daily Worker, Time Magazine, New York Daily News, Chicago Magazine.
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The Outfit is a production of Higher Ground and Headgum.
Hosted by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson
Executive Produced by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson
Produced by Julia Murray
Production Assistance by Franchesca Diaz and CJ Archerd
Sound Design and Engineering by Ryan Kozlowski and Andrew Eapen
Show theme is Bittersweet Defeat by OTE

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This week, Dan and Alana are joined by Demi Adejuyigbe — writer, comedian, and internet personality — to talk Martin Scorsese’s Casino. From lavish costumes to Oscar snubs, the crew breaks down this classic 1995 film to see how it measures up against the mob movie hall of fame.

Check out Demi's stand-up special on Dropout

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The Outfit is a production of Higher Ground and Headgum.
Hosted by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson
Executive Produced by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson
Produced by Julia Murray
Production Assistance by CJ Archerd and Franchesca Diaz
Sound Design and Engineering by Ryan Kozlowski and Andrew Eapen
Show theme is Bittersweet Defeat by OTE

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February 14th, 1929: a routine police raid on a Chicago garage turns out to be anything but, as seven men are machine-gunned to death; an event colloquially known as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. In this episode of “Al Capone All-American,” love is NOT in the air, as Dan and Alana find that the dead men are but collateral damage to an insidious gang war gripping the streets of Chicago—and all signs point to one Al Capone.

Sources
A special debt of gratitude to William J. Helmer & Arthur Bilek, authors of The St. Valentine's Day Massacre: The Untold Story of the Gangland Bloodbath that Brought Down Al Capone--the book which solved the case. A special thank you as well to William J. Helmer for his role in publishing Georgette Winkler's Al Capone and His American Boys: Memoirs of a Mobster's Wife, the most important account of the slayings.

Historian Mario Gomes's excellent website, My Al Capone Museum (https://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/)

Capone: The Man and the Era by Laurence Bergreen
Mr. Capone: The Real - and Complete - Story of Al Capone, by Robert J. Schoenberg
Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone by John Kobler
Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend by Deirdre Bair
The Wicked City: Chicago From Kenna to Capone by Curt Johnson with R. Craig Sautter
Al Capone’s Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition by John Binder
Gangland Chicago: Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City by Richard C. Lindberg
Prohibition Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation by Marc Mappen
The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America by Gus Russo
Newspapers including The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Daily-News, The Chicago American.
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The Outfit is a production of Higher Ground and Headgum.
Hosted by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson
Executive Produced by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson
Produced by Julia Murray
Production Assistance by Franchesca Diaz and CJ Archerd
Sound Design and Engineering by Ryan Kozlowski and Andrew Eapen
Show theme is Bittersweet Defeat by OTE
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

As a wave of political unrest sweeps 1923 Chicago, along comes the rise of a progressive mayoral candidate who vows to take down the bootleggers, effectively driving Al Capone’s operation to the suburb of Cicero, Illinois. In this week’s installment of “Al Capone All-American,” Dan and Alana find the Outfit’s bloody assault on democracy in Cicero is but a prelude for their return to Chicago—installing a buffoonish new mayor all-too reminiscent of a current-day executive.

Sources
Historian Mario Gomes's excellent website, My Al Capone Museum (https://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/)
Capone: The Man and the Era by Laurence Bergreen
Mr. Capone: The Real - and Complete - Story of Al Capone, by Robert J. Schoenberg
Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone by John Kobler
Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend by Deirdre Bair
The Wicked City: Chicago From Kenna to Capone by Curt Johnson with R. Craig Sautter
Al Capone’s Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition by John Binder
Gangland Chicago: Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City by Richard C. Lindberg
Prohibition Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation by Marc Mappen
The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America by Gus Russo
The Chicago Historical Homicide Project, Northwestern University.
"The Mostly True Story of America’s First Black Private Investigator," Matthew Wolfe, The Atavist Magazine.
Newspapers & magazines including: The Chicago Defender, Time Magazine, The Daily Worker, The Chicago Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Record-Herald, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Inter Ocean.
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The Outfit is a production of Higher Ground and Headgum.
Hosted by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson
Executive Produced by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson
Produced by Julia Murray
Production Assistance by Franchesca Diaz and CJ Archerd
Sound Design and Engineering by Ryan Kozlowski and Andrew Eapen
Show theme is Bittersweet Defeat by OTE

Like the show? Rate The Outfit on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review.
Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok.
Advertise on The Outfit via Gumball.fm
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It’s prohibition-era Chicago, and Al Capone and his gang boss, John Torrio, stand to make millions off of bootlegging. As long as crime can be organized along professional boundaries, there should be no need for violence. So why, as Prohibition wore on, did things get bloodier and bloodier? This week, Dan and Alana dig into The North Side Mob, and how their uniquely divided power structure led to an increasingly violent fight for territory.

Sources
The Man Who Got Away: The Bugs Moran Story by Rose Keefe
The Wicked City: Chicago From Kenna to Capone by Curt Johnson with R. Craig Sautter
Al Capone’s Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition by John Binder
Gangland Chicago: Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City by Richard C. Lindberg
Prohibition Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation by Marc Mappen
Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend by Deirdre Bair
The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America by Gus Russo
Mr. Capone: The Real - and Complete - Story of Al Capone, by Robert J. Schoenberg
Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone by John Kobler
Capone: The Man and the Era by Laurence Bergreen
Newspapers including The Daily Worker, The Chicago Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Record-Herald, The Chicago Sun-Times.

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The Outfit is a production of Higher Ground and Headgum.
Hosted by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson
Executive Produced by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson
Produced by Julia Murray
Production Assistance by Franchesca Diaz and CJ Archerd
Sound Design and Engineering by Ryan Kozlowski and Andrew Eapen
Show theme is Bittersweet Defeat by OTE

Like the show? Rate The Outfit on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review.
Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok.
Advertise on The Outfit via Gumball.fm
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.