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Allen Dorfman rose to prominence following World War II and by the late 1950s was a close cohort of IBT President Jimmy Hoffa.Dorfman's rise coincided with enormous expansion in Teamsters' ranks, along with spectacular growth in the union's pension funds, which eventually came largely under Dorfman's administration.
[8] [9] [36] [37] He was also elected a delegate to the Chicago Federation of Labor, the Illinois Federation of Labor, and Teamsters Joint Council of Chicago. [30] [1] Through most of the 1950s Glimco was considered "Chicago's top labor racketeer". [5] One top Chicago Teamsters leader noted in 1954, "He is the mob.
After his release from prison, Shea abandoned his family. In January 1909, he moved to New York City after being hired by a Teamsters local there to help run a strike. He was quickly elected the local's secretary-treasurer. Shea was arrested on April 29, 1909, in connection with a fistfight which occurred during the strike, but was released.
Warning: This story contains sensitive content. The death of an American woman in an assisted suicide capsule has led to criminal proceedings being launched against several people in Switzerland ...
A 79-year-old Missouri man is accused of killing a woman in her suburban Chicago home — a crime that happened nearly six decades ago. James Barbier was arrested Monday at his St. Louis County ...
On the evening of September 2, a 30-year-old woman named Kristin Kiefer of Vernon Hills, Illinois contacted police to report that while she was pulled over on the side of the road in Volo, Illinois, two men, one white and one black, approached her from a cornfield and tried to steal her car prompting her to flee from them on foot.
A woman in Illinois was fatally shot by law enforcement last week after she called authorities because she was scared an intruder was in her home, according to her family’s attorney.
At least one videotape showing Travis murdering and/or torturing some of his victims was found in the search of his home in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.He is believed to have killed two women: Alysia Greenwade, whose body was discovered April 1, 2001, in Illinois (after having been last seen in Missouri), and Betty James, whose body was discovered about two months later in ...