Annie: Many in this group have access to the Chicago Tribune Archives online. Perhaps if you gave us his name, we might be able to find articles related to your ancestor. Kathleen Craine Chicago I have someone who was born in 1890 in Chicago to a German-immigrant family. His father was a druggist, a salesman, etc. I don't think they were wealthly. However, he became a newspaper editor/writer and apparently had money, lots of it. He was supposedly involved with the Al Capone era, involved with gangsters but never a gangster himself. I find him on the 1930 census, married to his second wife and has a child. Somewhere around 1932 he moves to Miami Beach, FL where he dies in 1962. I have his death certificate which has very little information on it - except to say that he was born in Chicago and was a newspaper editor/writer. It's possible that he moved to Miami Beach to be involved in gangster-related activities. When did the Al Capone era end in Chicago? Would there have been any gangster-related reason for his leaving Chicago for Florida? I'm trying to reconstruct this man's life. It's interesting. He wasn't a nice man to his children. Thanks, Annie ------------------------------ To contact the COOK-CO-IL list administrator, send an email to COOK-CO-IL-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the COOK-CO-IL mailing list, send an email to COOK-CO-IL@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of COOK-CO-IL Digest, Vol 1, Issue 141 ****************************************** ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more.