Video Report on the Finding of Al Capone's Secret Bar

The thud and thump of a wall getting ripped apart was the prelude to a prize -- an old, ornate bar were Al Capone sipped suds and hung with his gangster buds. The revelation happened late Saturday in Fox Lake and made the man who owns it, feel as if he were a kid in a candy shop. Byron Harlan has the story.

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Henry Hill of Goodfellas Fame Pleads Guilty to Misdemeanor Charges

A mobster-turned-FBI informant whose life inspired the movie "Goodfellas" has pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of public intoxication a week after arrest warrants were issued when he failed to appear in court.

Henry Hill, played by Ray Liotta in the 1990 Martin Scorcese film, received two years' probation, credit for four days served in jail and a fine of $220 in a San Bernardino court Tuesday.

Hill was twice cited in 2008 for public drunkenness when he was in San Bernardino for alcohol counseling.

The FBI leveraged a drug trafficking bust to get Hill, now 65, to testify about New York mob murders and crime rings in 1980. He was initially in the federal witness protection program, but was removed in the early 1990s because of drug arrests.

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Video Report with Chicago Tribune Reporter Jeff Coen on the Nick Calabrese Sentencing.

Video Report of Chicago Tribune reporter Jeff Coen discussing the Nick Calabrese sentencing and history of crime families in Chicago.

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