The Outfit

with Alana Hope Levinson and Dan O'Sullivan

Al Capone All-American: Torrio vs Colosimo

1/15/2026

In this, the second episode of Outfit’s limited series "Al Capone All-American," Dan and Alana learn how the young Scarface, now on the cusp of adulthood, found himself drifting westward toward the city of destiny: Chicago. Under the influence of two underworld mentors with competing philosophies, who will Al Capone align himself with as Prohibition rears its head?

Sources

Historian Mario Gomes's excellent website, My Al Capone Museum ( https://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/)
Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend by Deirdre Bair
Al Capone’s Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition by John Binder
The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America by Gus Russo
Gangland Chicago: Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City by Richard C. Lindberg
Prohibition Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation by Marc Mappen
The Wicked City: Chicago From Kenna to Capone by Curt Johnson with R. Craig Sautter
Mr. Capone: The Real - and Complete - Story of Al Capone, by Robert J. Schoenberg
Young Al Capone: The Untold Story of Scarface in New York, 1899-1925 by William and John Balsamo
Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone by John Kobler
Capone: The Man and the Era by Laurence Bergreen
Newspapers including The Brooklyn Daily Times, The New York Daily News, The New York Times, The New York Herald, The Chicago Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Record-Herald, The Chicago Sun-Times.