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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. 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. 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 shocked the world on February 14, 1929, when Chicago’s North Side erupted in gang violence. George "Bugs" Moran was on his way to the garage in Chicago at St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Evidence. 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 occurred about 10:30 a.m. on February 14, 1929, inside the S.M.C. Cartage Company garage at 2122 North Clark Street on the north side of Chicago. Seven men associated with George “Bugs” Moran’s bootlegging operation were waiting inside the garage, presumably for a meeting to buy a hijacked shipment of As far as mass murders go, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre is one of the trickiest, best-crafted slaughters of the 1920s. The year was 1929; the day was Valentine's Day, and all was quiet in Bugs Moran's place of operation, the SMC Cartage Co. garage, located at 2122 North Clark Street in Chicago. 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 brutal murder of seven men in that cold Chicago garage on February 14, 1929, was the beginning of the end of Al Capone. The Saint 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 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 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 John Mandel of the National Wrecking Co., left, and John Yascot of Hawk and Handsaw, dismantle a wall of the garage on the site of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre at 2122 N. Clark St. in 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 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. St. Valentine’s Day Massacre HISTORY OF AL CAPONE Al Capone, Chicago’s most powerful, ruthless gangster in the 1920s era, was really a Brooklyn transplant who migrated to Chicago with his best buddy and future cohort in Chicago crime, Johnny Torrio who was originally hired by his Chicago mobster uncle, Big Jim Collisimo. The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the 1929 murder of seven mob associates as part of a in an unheated brick garage at 2122 N. Clark St., FPG/Getty Images One of the grisliest photos of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, which shows five of the victims of George “Bugs” Moran’s North Side Gang that were murdered in the garage at 2122 North Clark Street on February 14, 1929. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre marked a turning point in public opinion regarding organized crime. While the violence between criminal factions had been an ongoing concern, the audacity of the massacre, carried out in broad daylight, horrified the public and galvanized law enforcement efforts to combat the rampant criminal activity.
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