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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.
Century of Progress World's Fair, 1933 poster. In 1932, the Chicago democrats got into power and Franklin Roosevelt achieved 98% votes from the Twenty Fourth ward. Eddy Kelly was elected mayor and the Chicago democrats, who ruled so overwhelmingly that they held office for nearly 70 years, until the end of the 1900s.
2.1 Chicago Outfit. ... This list includes Italian American mobsters and organized crime figures by region and by American Mafia ... (1928–1930) Frank Scalice ...
November 6, 1930 – Forty-two-Gang member at the time and soon to be Outfit rising star Sam "Teets" Battaglia and two other thugs executed a brazenly stunning armed jewelry robbery on the, then, mayor of Chicago's wife, Mary Walker "Maysie" Thompson, as she walked into her apartment. The crooks ran off with $15,000 in Thompson's jewelry and ...
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.
The North Side Gang, also known as the North Side Mob, was a primarily Irish-American criminal organization within Chicago during the Prohibition era from the early 1920s to the mid-1930s. It was the principal rival of the South Side Gang, also known as the Chicago Outfit, the crime syndicate of Italian-Americans Johnny Torrio and Al Capone.
1920s–1930s Chicago labor racketeer who extorted millions of dollars from Hollywood studios on behalf of the Chicago Outfit during the 1930s. [1] [2] [5] [8] Charles Birger: No image available: 1881–1928 1919–1928 Illinois bootlegger who feuded with the Shelton Brothers Gang throughout Prohibition. [10] Alex "Shondor" Birns: No image ...
Herbert Blitzstein, "Fat Herbie" (1934–1997), representing the Chicago Outfit; Marshall Caifano, representing the Chicago Outfit (1911–2003) Frank Cullotta, "The Las Vegas Boss" (1938-2020), representing the Chicago Outfit; Gus Greenbaum (1894–1958), representing the Chicago Outfit; John Roselli (1905–1976), representing the Chicago Outfit