St. Valentine's Day Massacre was a Indian Wars and Frontier Conflicts engagement fought in Illinois, 1929.
Seven men connected to George 'Bugs' Moran's North Side gang were lined against a wall in a Clark Street garage and machine-gunned in the most notorious mass killing of the Prohibition era. Assailants, some dressed as police, herded the victims into the SMC Cartage Company garage and killed them with submachine guns and shotguns; Moran, the apparent target, was not present. The massacre, widely attributed to Capone's organization and gunmen including Fred 'Killer' Burke, effectively broke the North Side outfit as a force in the beer wars and marked the peak of Chicago's gangland violence. The savagery and the police-impersonation ruse provoked national revulsion and intensified federal pressure that ultimately helped bring Capone down. It remains the defining image of the 1920s beer wars, though no one was ever convicted of the killings.
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