CHICAGO – In the pantheon of Chicago crime fighters, nobody has the worldwide reputation of Eliot Ness. He’s the Prohibition agent who brought down Al Capone, the principled lawman in a city awash in ...

Hollywood's been known to dramatize even the most dramatic of real-life narratives. So of course the real Eliot Ness wasn't nearly as dashing as Robert Stack or Kevin Costner (although maybe he was).

Our impressions of well known historical figures are frequently derived from television programs. This reviewer’s image of the legendary Eliot Ness had been shaped by watching reruns of the hit TV ...

Brian de Palma's 1987 classic The Untouchables took the 1959 series of the same name, starring Robert Stack as the "untouchable" Eliot Ness, and made a taut crime drama with stunning performances by ...

CHICAGO (AP) – In the pantheon of Chicago crime fighters, nobody has the worldwide reputation of Eliot Ness. He’s the prohibition agent who brought down Al Capone, the principled lawman in a city ...

Author Douglas Perry's new book, Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero, paints a portrait of the legendary lawman as a flawed but... 'Eliot Ness': Actually Untouchable, Except When It Came ...