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AL CAPONE’S SOUP KITCHEN
During the Great Depression, mob boss Al Capone ran a
soup kitchen that offered free meals to Chicago’s poor
and homeless. The gangster — who got rich bootlegging
alcohol during Prohibition but was not above murder,
intimidation or extortion — would even walk among
the queueing masses, offering handshakes and
encouraging words. The kitchen reportedly
fed 5,000 on Thanksgiving Day.
1930

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