Al Capone was dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging liquor, and other illegal activities, such as prostitution, in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931. In his early twenties, he moved to Chicago to take advantage of a new opportunity to make money smuggling illegal alcoholic beverages into the city during Prohibition. He would smuggle in alcohol from Canada and The island of St. Pierre during the Canadian Prohibition. He did so well that he was making more money than the Federal Government of the United States.