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On the morning of February 14, 1929 four unknown assailants, two dressed as Chicago policemen, gunned down seven men in a Lincoln Park neighborhood garage. This crime shocked the nation and had long-term effects on local and national law enforcement and politics. Officially, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre is an unsolved crime. 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. 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 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. 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. On February 14, seven members of Moran’s operation were gunned down while standing lined up, facing the wall of the garage. Some 70 rounds of ammunition were fired. When police officers from After seven Chicago mobsters were killed at a North Side garage on Feb. 14, 1929, the shootings quickly became known around the world as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. 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. The brutal murder of seven men in that cold Chicago garage on February 14, 1929, was the beginning of the end of Al Capone. Never could he have imagined that this one particular crime put the target mark on his back – not just from the Federal government but also from the syndicate. Around 10:30 a.m. on St. Valentine's Day, February 14, 1929, seven members of Bugs Moran's gang were gunned down in cold blood in a garage in Chicago. The massacre, orchestrated by Al Capone, shocked the nation by its brutality. 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 bodies of six of the seven men slain on Feb. 14, 1929, in the S. M. C. Cartage Company garage at 2122 N. Clark St. on Chicago's North Side in what became known as the St. Valentine's Day This is the story of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre at a Lincoln Park garage, and some stories of the paranormal in its wake. named Highball, to the garage that morning. St. Valentine's Day The SMC Cartage Co. garage, 2122 N. Clark Street in Chicago, was the scene of the infamous St. Valentine’s Day massacre in 1929, where seven men were murdered. The building was demolished in 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. To this day, in early 2024, no one has ever been arrested for the murders that occurred during the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Several factors played into the lack of arrests. The biggest issue was that the man who is assumed to have ordered the massacre, Al Capone, was vacationing in Florida at the time it occurred. The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the 1929 murder of seven men of the North Side Irish gang during the Prohibition Era.[1] It resulted from the struggle – between the Irish American gang and the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone – to take control of organized crime in Chicago.[2] The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the 1929 murder of seven mob were lined up against the rear inside wall of the garage at 2122 North Clark 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
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