By Dahleen Glanton.
The brick two-flat at 7244 S. Prairie Avenue in Chicago's Park Manor neighborhood hasn't sold in 831 days, despite a drop in asking price from $300,000 to $225,000. It now houses two apartments. There are some fears that it might be torn down, but not too likely.
There is also a movement on to have it given landmark status.
The Capones bought it for $5,500 in August 1923. They were among the wave of first- and second-generation immigrants who moved to this South Side neighborhood during Prohibition. Historians say the home at 72nd Street and Prairie Avenue was his safe haven. His mother, Teresa, and his wife, Mae, signed the original deed.
According to a December 1927 Chicago Tribune story, Capone once holed up in the house after police threatened to arrest him if he stepped outside.
Capone went to prison in 1931 and had moved to a home in Florida by the time of his death in 1947, but his mother continued to live in the house until she died in 1952.
A Piece of Chicago History. --DaCoot
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