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The Chicago Outfit (also known as the Outfit, the Chicago Mafia, the Chicago Mob, the Chicago crime family, the South Side Gang or the Organization) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Chicago, Illinois, which originated in the city's South Side in 1910. The organization is part of the larger Italian-American Mafia.
Participants in organized crime in Chicago at various times have included members of the Chicago Outfit associated with Al Capone, the Valley Gang, the North Side Gang, Prohibition gangsters, and others.
1934 – Colorfully versed Mob "girlfriend" and Mob courier Virginia Hill came to Chicago to be a coochie dancer at the 1933–34 World's Fair. She eventually became more than "arm candy" for some of the top brass in the Outfit, before she moved on to others and eventually to Genovese Family mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel .
The character Mob Man (uncredited) from The X-Files episode "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man", who is present at a planning meeting on the assassination of JFK, is likely based on Giancana. Giancana is portrayed by Emmett Skilton in the 8-part AMC television miniseries The Making of the Mob: Chicago (2016).
John Philip Cerone (July 7, 1914 – July 26, 1996), nicknamed Jackie the Lackey, was an American mobster and boss of the Chicago Outfit during the late 1960s. He was the younger brother of mobster Frank "Skippy" Cerone, father of lawyer John Peter Cerone, and husband to the late Clara Cerone.
Sal Pullia, who had ties to politics and the Chicago Outfit, was last seen at a Melrose Park restaurant in ‘81. Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune ... No. 3 in the Chicago mob’s hierarchy, owned ...
Charles Nicoletti (/ ˌ n ɪ k ə ˈ l ɛ t i /; December 3, 1916 – March 29, 1977), also known as "Chuckie the Typewriter", was an American mobster of the Chicago Outfit, who served as hitman under boss Sam Giancana before and after Giancana's rise and fall.
The Chicago Mafia. The Gambino family. The Lucchese family. These notorious groups dominated organized crime in Chicago and New York for decades –- until prosecutors brought them down with one ...