Al Capone's Barber Shop, Blackstone Hotel

            Here in the lower level of the Blackstone Hotel is a barbershop. Al Capone, whose father had been a barber, liked to get his hair cut in this windowless room and hold meetings here.

This is a chair from the old barbershop. Whether Big Al sat here or not is unknown.

Upstairs was the Crystal Ballroom in which Lucky Luciano would hold his first Crime Convention. It's also the room in which the infamous baseball bat scene in the 1987 movie "The Untouchables" was filmed.

Located at 636 S. Michigan Ave.

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Taken in: United States / Illinois / Chicago / Grant Park (show map)

Taken on: October 14, 2023

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