The Alton/Anton/Towne Hotel was at one time Al Capone's headquarters in exile, and in later years was owned by his brother Ralph. If you have ever seen the coffee shop scene in the movie "The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre," the real event where the North Side gang tried to get Capone was at that shop. A had a friend who grew up in a building over on Cicero, just north of the train tracks, and witnessed it as a very young boy. There were a whole group of strip clubs and mob bars along there, a lot of information to be had at a website called "myalcaponemusuem." Google it.