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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.
From 1927 through 1960, the head of police was titled the Commissioner of Police. [1] [2] In 1960, the head of police assumed its current title, Superintendent of Police. [1] [2] Samuel Nolan was the first African-American individual to serve as head of the police department in an interim capacity, doing so from late–1979 until January 1980.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Sunday stayed within the ranks and named Larry Snelling, the police department's counterterrorism head, as his choice for police superintendent of the nation's ...
First known as the "Fat Boy" and later "the Large Guy," Mike Sarno is now 64 years old and said to be a fraction of his former self, in health, size and power.
The participants included: "Charles 'Lucky' Luciano" (Salvatore Lucania), who masterminded New York's five crime families and was the Genovese crime family's first boss, Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, who went on to head-up organized crime's assassins-for-hire group, "Murder, Inc.", Abner "Longy" Zwillman, who was a "Prohibition gangster" and who ...
CHICAGO —The head of the agency that investigates shootings by Chicago police officers and allegations of officer misconduct announced her resignation Wednesday. Sydney Roberts’ departure as ...
Michael Sarno (born January 7, 1958) is an American mobster who has been identified as the alleged, current leader of the Cicero street crew in the Chicago Outfit criminal organization. On February 8, 2012, Sarno was sentenced to 25 years in prison on racketeering charges.