As reported within the Chicago Daily News, sister newsletter of the Chicago Sun-Times:
Al Capone is also certainly one of Chicago’s greatest vacationer sights as of late, however within the overdue 1920s, memento stores in Miami Beach, Florida, weren’t moderately able to slap the bootlegger’s mug on a T-shirt and promote it to Fourth of July vacationers.
A June 28, 1928 document within the Chicago Daily News detailed Capone’s arrival in Miami Beach simply sooner than the Fourth of July — and town’s try to put the Chicago mobster at the back of bars to save lots of their vacation tourism.
In a “stormy special session,” town council handed a solution calling on any county officer to arrest Capone for “the slightest infraction of any law,” the document mentioned. Residents of the Palm Island community, the place Capone’s space used to be, argued his presence used to be “detrimental to tourist visiting.”
Meanwhile, Capone stood by way of his proper to be on his personal belongings and insisted that he would “resist in the highest court any effort to oust him.”