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Chicago’s gang war reached its bloody climax in the so-called St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929. One of Capone’s longtime enemies, the Irish gangster George “Bugs” Moran, ran his 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. 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. 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. The Leadup to the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre: Al Capone and George “Bugs” Moran Rivalry was part and parcel of bootlegging life in 1920s Chicago. It wasn’t strange for arguments and feuds to be settled with gun battles or covert assassinations, but what occurred on Valentine’s Day 1929 was unlike anything that had been seen before. 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. On the chilly winter morning of February 14, 1929, four men entered SMC Cartage Company garage in Chicago. Seven members of Bugs Moran’s gang were lined up against the wall and shot. The men opened fire with two Thompson submachine guns and a shotgun. All seven were shot dead. The St. Valentine‘s Day Massacre, as it came to be known, saw seven members of George "Bugs" Moran‘s North Side Gang lined up against a wall inside a Lincoln Park garage and riddled with 70 rounds of ammunition by four unknown assassins, at least two of whom were dressed as police officers. On February 14, 1929, seven members of the North Side Gang were executed in a hail of bullets in a garage in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, marking the height of the city’s brutal gang war and cementing the reputation of notorious gangster Al Capone. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Feb. 14th, 1929. Seven men machine-gunned to death in Chicago. Al Capone was suspected, but as The Mob Museum will show you, nothing was what it seemed. As the meeting closed, everyone was exhausted. Everybody had to step out of the meeting and tell their wives that they wouldn’t be home for Valentine’s Day dinner. The meeting because known as the St. Valentines Day Massacre because it slaughtered a romantic evening with spouses. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Feb. 14th, 1929. Seven men machine-gunned to death in Chicago. Al Capone was suspected, but as The Mob Museum will show you, nothing was what it seemed. When the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre occurred on February 14, 1929, Burke was among the prime suspects. He went into hiding in rural Michigan. On December 14, 1929 — 10 months after the Massacre — he was involved in a car accident in St. Joseph, Michigan, where he was known as “Frederick Dane.” In a Chicago Tribune story by Ronald Koziol, dated February 13,1987, it was rumoured that George Segal, the actor who played Peter Gusenberg in the St.Valentine's day massacre movie, removed one of the bricks as a keepsake while they were filming inside the 2122 N.Clark location. This was probably fabrication as his agent denied these rumors. THE NEIGHBORHOOD SITE OF THE ST. VALENTINE’S MASSACRE. The massacre happened inside the SMC Cartage Company‘s garage located at 2122 North Clark Street in Lincoln Park. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre claimed the lives of six men associated with Moran’s gang: Frank Gusenberg, Pete Gusenberg, Albert Kachellek, Adam Heyer, James Clark, and John May. While Moran himself narrowly escaped the bloodshed, the brutal event shook the criminal underworld and the public, highlighting the audacity and ruthlessness of The day after the massacre, a coroner's jury watched police reenact the killings at the scene of the crime. For more photos, see the gallery ». At around 10:30 in the morning on February 14th, a A commercial garage on the north side of Chicago was the setting for the most horrific shooting in Mob history, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. 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. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Feb. 14th, 1929. Seven men machine-gunned to death in Chicago. Al Capone was suspected, but as The Mob Museum will show you, nothing was what it seemed. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Feb. 14th, 1929. Seven men machine-gunned to death in Chicago. Al Capone was suspected, but as The Mob Museum will show you, nothing was what it seemed.
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