ALBION, Michigan -- About a dozen times a day, trains run through this town situated in the center of the Lower Peninsula region of Michigan. Superior Street, the main artery, rumbles.
Some of the 8,616 residents know Albion's history by heart. In the late 1800s, Juliet Calhoun Blakeley, a temperance movement advocate, hosted one of the first Mother's Day celebrations in the country here. At the Bohm Theatre, located on the city's main strip, you can watch a movie or listen to locals play the blues on a Thursday night. It's also the place where notorious gangster Al Capone would meet with his Purple Gang in the 1920s, using the town as a central hub for the illegal business they conducted between Chicago and Detroit.