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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."
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</body></article>
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