You do know that I'm from Chicago, right....right??

Capone was finally taken down because his "exploits" embarrassed yet another rich white man -- the FBI's freshly minted Director, J. Edgar Hoover.

Also, Italians, the Irish, and a host of other Southern and Eastern European immigrants were just coming full-flower into their whiteness, into their American-ness during that period. In other words, they were not yet quite "white" --or white enough.