CHICAGO (AP) – Although he is definitely one of the best-known Chicagoans of all time, city officials have long made it a point not to perpetuate the memory of Al Capone.
But the name of the long-dead gangster recently showed up on a city historical marker designating the one-time sites of the Metropole and Lexington hotels, two Capone haunts on South Michigan Ave.
The city’s Department of Transportation is responsible. Department spokesman Brian Steele says the sign, which was put up late last year, is part of what he calls a Michigan Avenue “streetscape project.”
Both the Metropole and the Lexington have been replaced by condos, but both were regarded as architecturally significant. The sign deals more with the architecture than it does with Capone – but it does mention him.
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