Live TV Special to Show Opening of Huge Vault Tied to Al Capone
A block-long vault that may contain treasures linked to gangster Al Capone will be opened April 14 during a live television special, the vault’s owners said Thursday.
The vault is in the basement of a South Side hotel that Capone used as his headquarters in the 1920s and ‘30s.
It is 125 feet long, 8 feet high and 8 feet wide and was discovered in May by a group renovating the building.
No one associated with the project knows what is in the vault, said Doug Llewelyn, senior vice president of the Westgate Group, the California company producing the two-hour television program, which will be syndicated nationwide.
“There could be bodies,” he said. “Capone was one of the kings of the underworld . . . . There could be lots of booze . . . . It could be one of the best-kept wine cellars in the United States. There could be a lot of money in there.”
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