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- <text id=89TT1143>
- <title>
- May 01, 1989: American Notes:Chicago
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- May 01, 1989 Abortion
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 43
- No Place for Scarface
- </hdr><body>
- <p> As a symbol of American enterprise at its worst, Al Capone
- has a place in history. But some Chicagoans would rather forget
- the legendary mobster. When Mark Levell, 29, a computer
- technician and amateur historian, proposed to the U.S. Interior
- Department that it designate as a historic site the red brick
- house on Chicago's South Side where Scarface lived during his
- 1920s crime wave, he sparked a heated reaction.
- </p>
- <p> Residents of the neighborhood groused that they didn't want
- to put up with visiting busloads of crime buffs.
- Italian-American organizations argued, somewhat illogically,
- that by designating the house, the Government would be honoring
- Capone, thus defaming their ethnic group. Said Robert Allegrini,
- executive director of the Joint Civic Commission of Italian
- Americans: "We shouldn't be haunted by Capone's ghost 50 years
- later." Daunted by the furor, Levell withdrew his proposal last
- week, explaining, "I still feel the house is historically
- significant, but not at the cost of hurting the Italian-American
- community."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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