The Anton Hotel at 4835 W. 22nd street do any body remember this place?
Some of us guys from Hawthorne Works would go there at lunch and watch the Topless girls dance. This was in the 60's & 70's.
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.
The Alton Hotel has stood alone on a gap-toothed block of empty lots and old buildings in recent years, the last survivor of a string of hotels in the 4800 block of West Cermak Road, where Capone set up shop in the Roaring '20s.
Legend has it that Capone and his cohorts sometimes eluded raids by authorities via a [url=http://essayservices.org/]series[/url] of tunnels and secret passageways beneath the three-story Alton at 4837 W. Cermak Rd., and its neighbor buildings.