Bugs Moran

Bugs Moran was an American gangster who led Chicago’s North Side Gang during Prohibition and fought for control of the city’s criminal rackets.

Al Capone: Al Capone was a Chicago crime boss who led the city’s dominant criminal organization during Prohibition. Capone’s South Side organization was Moran’s principal rival in Chicago’s gang war.
St. Valentine's Day Massacre: The 1929 killing of seven men associated with Chicago’s North Side Gang in a garage on North Clark Street. The massacre was intended to strike Moran’s organization, though he was not present.
Bootlegging: The illegal production, transport, or sale of alcoholic beverages, especially during Prohibition. Bootlegging supplied the principal revenue behind the North Side Gang’s conflict with Capone.
Chicago gangland violence: Violence among criminal organizations competing for power and illicit markets in Chicago. Moran’s rivalry with Capone became one of the city’s most visible gang conflicts.
Dean O’Banion: Dean O’Banion was an Irish-American gangster who led Chicago’s North Side Gang before Moran. Moran succeeded O’Banion as the North Side Gang’s leader after O’Banion’s murder.
North Side Gang: A Chicago criminal organization that competed with Al Capone’s South Side gang during Prohibition. Moran led this organization through its most violent rivalry with Capone.
Organized crime: Coordinated criminal activity conducted by groups that persist over time and pursue profit or power. Moran’s leadership was one instance of organized crime in Prohibition-era Chicago.
Public enemy era: A period in the early 1930s when notorious American criminals received intense national publicity. Moran’s reputation endured as the press turned Chicago gangsters into national figures.
John Dillinger: John Dillinger was an American bank robber whose gang operated in the Midwest during the Great Depression. Moran later became associated with Dillinger’s criminal circle after Prohibition-era gang wars.
Prohibition in the United States: The nationwide constitutional ban on the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages, in effect from 1920 to 1933. Illegal liquor profits fueled the rivalry between Moran’s gang and Capone’s organization.

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Saint Valentine's Day MassacreRelated: His gang was the intended target, though Moran was not at the garage.