Editing Eliot Ness (section)

=== Proposed building naming ===
[[File:Nesscredentials.jpg|thumb|Ness's credentials as agent]]
On January 10, 2014, Illinois U.S. Senators [[Dick Durbin]] and [[Mark Kirk]] and Ohio Senator [[Sherrod Brown]] proposed naming the headquarters of the [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives]] in Washington, D.C., after Ness.<ref>{{cite news|last=Skiba|first=Katherine|title='Untouchable' idea – building named for Eliot Ness|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-untouchable-idea-building-named-for-eliot-ness-20140110,0,1797502.story|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|access-date=January 10, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116192836/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-untouchable-idea-building-named-for-eliot-ness-20140110,0,1797502.story|archive-date=January 16, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Collins & Schwartz" />{{Rp|545-547}} If approved, it would have been called the Eliot Ness ATF Building. Brown said in a statement: "Eliot Ness is perhaps best known as the man who helped to bring Al Capone to justice. But Eliot Ness was more than just a Chicago U.S. prohibition agent. He fought for law and justice in Ohio, and fought for peace and freedom in World War II. He was a public servant and an American hero who deserves to be remembered."<ref>{{cite press release |title= Sens. Brown, Kirk, And Durbin Introduce Bipartisan Resolution To Honor Famed Prohibition Agent, Eliot Ness|url=https://www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/sens-brown-kirk-and-durbin-introduce-bipartisan-resolution-to-honor-famed-prohibition-agent-eliot-ness |location= Washington, DC|publisher= Office of Senator Sherrod Brown|date= January 10, 2014|access-date=October 9, 2019}}</ref>

Chicago Aldermen [[Edward M. Burke]] (14th Ward) and [[James Balcer]] (11th Ward) introduced a resolution in the [[Chicago City Council]] to oppose the renaming. In a news release, Burke said: "Eliot Ness had a checkered career after leaving the federal government. I simply do not think his image matches the actual reality of his legacy."<ref>{{cite news|title=Pair of aldermen oppose effort to rename ATF HQ after Eliot Ness|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/chi-pair-of-aldermen-oppose-effort-to-rename-atf-hq-after-eliot-ness-20140115-story.html|date=January 15, 2014|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|access-date=June 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140118030432/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/clout/chi-pair-of-aldermen-oppose-effort-to-rename-atf-hq-after-eliot-ness-20140115,0,3392077.story|archive-date=January 18, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Eliotness-Painting.jpg|thumb|Illustration of Ness]]
The authors of two separate Ness biographies later disputed the accuracy of Burke's claims, suggesting he mischaracterized Ness's career.<ref name="Collins & Schwartz" />{{Rp|545-547}}<ref>{{cite news|last= Perry|first= Douglas |newspaper=Chicago Tribune|title=The truth about Eliot Ness|date = January 24, 2014|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/ct-xpm-2014-01-24-ct-eliot-ness-capone-atf-building-ed-burke-perspec-20140124-story.html|access-date=October 9, 2019}}</ref> "If Hollywood has given Eliot Ness too much credit for getting Capone," Max Allan Collins wrote in an article for ''[[HuffPost]]'', "he has received too little credit anywhere else for helping professionalize law enforcement in the mid-20th Century."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/eliot-ness-they-should-name-a-building_b_4651955 | title=They should name a building for him | last=Collins | first=Max Allan | work=[[HuffPost]] | date=January 23, 2014}}</ref>

Although the Senate resolution was never adopted, the main atrium in the ATF headquarters building was later renamed for Eliot Ness and features a historical exhibit about the Untouchables.<ref name="Collins & Schwartz" />{{Rp|547-548}}