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DiFronzo was a made member and the caporegime of the Elmwood Park Crew within the Chicago Outfit. [1] In 1965, he was sentenced to 10 years at Leavenworth Prison after he and two Outfit affiliates robbed a warehouse in Forest View, Illinois , of cigarettes, razor blades, and ladies' hosiery. [ 2 ]
His brother, Peter DiFronzo, a "made man", was convicted of warehouse burglary in 1963. [ 3 ] In 1993, DiFronzo was convicted along with Chicago boss Samuel "Black Sam" Carlisi , his gambling capo Donald "The Wizard of Odds" Angelini , and four other men of federal racketeering charges for attempting to subterfuge gambling operations at the ...
The Sun-Times resulted from the 1948 merger of the Chicago Sun and the Chicago Daily Times newspapers. [ a ] Journalists at the paper have received eight Pulitzer Prizes , mostly in the 1970s; one recipient was the first film critic to receive the prize, Roger Ebert (1975), who worked at the paper from 1967 until his death in 2013.
In 1944, soon after its establishment, Field Enterprises acquired the book publishers Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books. The next year, the company acquired World Book Encyclopedia. In 1948, Field merged the Chicago Sun with the Chicago Daily Times to create the Chicago Sun-Times. Marshall Field III died in 1956; his son Marshall Field IV took ...
Born in Chicago, Marcello worked as a laborer for Chicago's Department of Streets and Sanitation from 1960 until 1973. [1]Marcello reportedly became a "made" member in the Chicago mob in 1983—a step that, a mob turncoat testified in 2007, required an individual to be of 100 percent Italian heritage and also to have participated in at least one killing.
Michael Jerome Corbitt (March 17, 1944 – July 27, 2004) was a police chief of Willow Springs, Illinois from 1973 until 1982, a three-time convicted felon, and an associate of Chicago Outfit mobsters such as Sal Bastone, Sam "Momo" Giancana and Antonino "Tony," "Joe Batters" Accardo. He became a cooperating witness after being convicted of ...
John DiFronzo (1928–2018), nicknamed "No Nose", American mobster and the reputed former boss of the Chicago Outfit; Peter DiFronzo (1933-2020), brother of John DiFronzo (reputed to be the leader of the Chicago Outfit) and Joseph DiFronzo
In 2002, the Chicago Sun-Times called Fratto a "reputed Elmwood Park street lieutenant." [1] His name had come up during a sentencing hearing for a former Chicago police Chief of Detectives, in which Fratto was shown on FBI surveillance tapes to have held meetings with the former Chief of Detectives.