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At 10:30 in the morning on Saint Valentine's Day, Thursday, February 14, 1929, seven men were murdered at the garage at 2122 North Clark Street, [2][3] in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago's North Side. They were shot by four men using weapons that included two Thompson submachine guns. Valentine's Day 1929 marks the most infamous gangster mass murder in history, when mobsters Al Capone, "Bugs" Moran, and others fought for their share of the profits from illegal activity in St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, mass murder of a group of unarmed bootlegging gang members in Chicago on February 14, 1929. The bloody incident dramatized the intense rivalry for control of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition era in the United States. Valentine's Day 1929 marks the most infamous gangster mass murder in history, when mobsters Al Capone, "Bugs" Moran, and others fought for their share of the profits from illegal activity in The crime that became known as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre occurred on the morning of February 14, 1929, inside a garage on the north side of Chicago. Seven members of Bugs Moran’s gang were lined up against a wall and shot down with Tommy guns. In a mob hit known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, seven members of George "Bugs" Moran's gang were gunned down in a Chicago garage on February 14, 1929. Though Al Capone was the prime suspect, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre remains unsolved. Posing as police officers conducting a routine raid on February 14, 1929, four men entered a warehouse at 2122 N. Clark Street, used by George “Bugs” Moran and his gang to store liquor. The impostors lined up six gang members and a hanger-on against a wall, produced machine guns from under their overcoats, and opened fire. The morning of February 14, 1929 started like any other day on Chicago‘s North Side. But by 10:30 a.m., the city – and the nation – would be shocked by the most brutal gangland slaying in American history. On the morning of 14 February 1929, two men dressed as police officers and two men dressed as civilians entered gangster Bugs Moran’s headquarters on North Clark Street in Chicago. On February 14, 1929, seven members and associates of George “Bugs” Moran’s bootlegging gang were lined up against a wall and shot dead inside the garage at 2122 North Clark Street. Al Capone’s Chicago Outfit was widely suspected of ordering the hit, but no one was ever prosecuted. On Feb. 14, 1929, the gangster Al Capone’s gang gunned down seven members of a rival Chicago gang in the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. “Chicago gangland leaders observed Valentine’s Day with machine guns and a stream of bullets,” declared The New York Times, “and as a result seven members of the George (Bugs) Moran-Dean O’Banion, North Side Gang are dead in the most cold-blooded The Werner Storage Company building located at 2122 N. Clark St., shown here in 1953 is the scene of the St. Valentine's Day massacre on Feb. 14, 1929. The building was torn down December 1967. This is Valentine’s Day.Today’s Highlight in History:On Feb. 14, 1929, the “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” took place in a Chicago garage as seven rivals of Al Capone’s gang were gunned The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang on Saint Valentine's Day 1929. The men were gathered at a Lincoln Park, Chicago, garage on the morning of February 14, 1929. On Feb. 14, 1929, seven men were lined up against the wall in a North Side garage and gunned down execution-style. The infamous mob hit became known as the St. Valentine's Day massacre. Five known members of George 'Bugs' Moran's gang, one associate and a garage worker were killed. The hit was allegedly orchestrated by rival mob boss Al Capone, who was conveniently at his Florida home at the time. Though Capone was the prime suspect, to this day no one has taken credit for the St. Valentine's Day MassacreFPG/Getty Images Five of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre victims. On Feb. 14, 1929, Frank Gusenberg was A body is removed from the S.M.C. Cartage Co. garage on North Clark Street in Chicago on Feb. 14, 1929, following the St. Valentine’s Day massacre. | Chicago History Museum/Distributed by the A battle that dominated the Chicago underworld for years and saw over 200 mob murders, would end on February 14, 1929, with the St Valentine's Day Massacre. The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang on Saint Valentine's Day 1929. The men were gathered at a Lincoln Park, Chicago, garage on the morning of February 14, 1929. The Werner Storage Company building located at 2122 N. Clark St., shown here in 1953 is the scene of the St. Valentine's Day massacre on Feb. 14, 1929. The building was torn down December 1967.
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