Today I will leaving "Bean Town", and headed to Chicago. Before I leave I need to feed my car some fuel. There is a Mobil Gas Station 7 minutes away from my location. I just arrived to the Mobil Gas Station, and the total cost of gas for gas is $72. I am now on my way to Chicago and Illinois. This is definitely a long drive, but I can last through it. I just arrived to Erie County, New York. I am running low on gas, and have to stop to feed my car some fuel, so I can get back on the road towards Chicago wooo! I'm stopping at the Sunoco Gas Station on 9299 Erie Rd, Angola, NY 14006. The total price of gas was $69. I am now back on the road and I have 7 hours left of my trip. This has been a long drive. Finally after too many hours of driving I have now arrived to Chicago. I am now on my way to El Capone museum, located on 7244 South Prairie Avenue. It is 26 min away from from my location. I am now here at the museum. Al Capone was born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, to poor immigrant parents, Al Capone went on to become the most infamous gangster in American history. In 1920 during the height of Prohibition, Capone’s multi-million dollar Chicago operation in bootlegging, prostitution and gambling dominated the organized crime scene. When Capone was 19, he married Mae Coughlin just weeks after the birth of their child, Albert Francis. His former boss and friend Johnny Torrio was the boy’s godfather. Now a husband and a father, Capone wanted to do right by his family, so he moved to Baltimore where he took an honest job as a bookkeeper for a construction company. But when Capone’s father died of a heart attack in 1920, Torrio invited him to come to Chicago. Capone jumped at the opportunity. In Chicago, Torrio was presiding over a booming business in gambling and prostitution, but with the enactment in 1920 of the 18th Amendment prohibiting the sale and consumption of alcohol, Torrio focused on a new, more lucrative field: bootlegging. Capone cleaned up his act when his family arrived from Brooklyn. In 1923, when Chicago elected a reformist mayor who announced that he planned to rid the city of corruption, Torrio and Capone moved their base beyond the city limits to suburban Cicero. But a 1924 mayoral election in Cicero threatened their operations. To ensure they could continue doing business, Torrio and Capone initiated an intimidation effort on the day of the election, March 31, 1924, to guarantee their candidate would get elected. Some voters were even shot and killed. Chicago sent in police to respond, and they brutally gunned down Capone’s brother Frank in the street. I had so much fun visiting Chicago and learning about El Capone. I will now be headed to my hotel 14 minutes away from my location. The total cost of my lodge is $50. Stay tuned for the sixteenth journey.
cecenadennise
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16 Apr 2020
Chicago
Today I will leaving "Bean Town", and headed to Chicago. Before I leave I need to feed my car some fuel. There is a Mobil Gas Station 7 minutes away from my location. I just arrived to the Mobil Gas Station, and the total cost of gas for gas is $72. I am now on my way to Chicago and Illinois. This is definitely a long drive, but I can last through it. I just arrived to Erie County, New York. I am running low on gas, and have to stop to feed my car some fuel, so I can get back on the road towards Chicago wooo! I'm stopping at the Sunoco Gas Station on 9299 Erie Rd, Angola, NY 14006. The total price of gas was $69. I am now back on the road and I have 7 hours left of my trip. This has been a long drive. Finally after too many hours of driving I have now arrived to Chicago. I am now on my way to El Capone museum, located on 7244 South Prairie Avenue. It is 26 min away from from my location. I am now here at the museum. Al Capone was born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, to poor immigrant parents, Al Capone went on to become the most infamous gangster in American history. In 1920 during the height of Prohibition, Capone’s multi-million dollar Chicago operation in bootlegging, prostitution and gambling dominated the organized crime scene. When Capone was 19, he married Mae Coughlin just weeks after the birth of their child, Albert Francis. His former boss and friend Johnny Torrio was the boy’s godfather. Now a husband and a father, Capone wanted to do right by his family, so he moved to Baltimore where he took an honest job as a bookkeeper for a construction company. But when Capone’s father died of a heart attack in 1920, Torrio invited him to come to Chicago. Capone jumped at the opportunity. In Chicago, Torrio was presiding over a booming business in gambling and prostitution, but with the enactment in 1920 of the 18th Amendment prohibiting the sale and consumption of alcohol, Torrio focused on a new, more lucrative field: bootlegging. Capone cleaned up his act when his family arrived from Brooklyn. In 1923, when Chicago elected a reformist mayor who announced that he planned to rid the city of corruption, Torrio and Capone moved their base beyond the city limits to suburban Cicero. But a 1924 mayoral election in Cicero threatened their operations. To ensure they could continue doing business, Torrio and Capone initiated an intimidation effort on the day of the election, March 31, 1924, to guarantee their candidate would get elected. Some voters were even shot and killed. Chicago sent in police to respond, and they brutally gunned down Capone’s brother Frank in the street. I had so much fun visiting Chicago and learning about El Capone. I will now be headed to my hotel 14 minutes away from my location. The total cost of my lodge is $50. Stay tuned for the sixteenth journey.
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