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In 1949, Zerilli became president of the Hazel Park Racing Association and Track in Hazel Park, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Originally planned as an auto track, Hazel Park Raceway was the first modern 5/8-mile horse racing track in Michigan. With family help, Zerilli had purchased a controlling interest in the operation for US$50,000.
The Detroit Mafia as a unified organization can be traced to the early 20th century "Motor City" mafiosi who came together to begin what was known by the early 1930s as the Detroit crime family or Detroit Partnership. Gaspar Milazzo was born in 1887 in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily.
Burnstein, Scott M. Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit (Images of America). Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2006. ISBN 0-7385-4084-6; Kelly, Robert J. Encyclopedia of Organized Crime in the United States. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000. ISBN 0-313-30653-2; Sifakis, Carl. The Mafia ...
Mass murder of family from suburban Detroit while vacationing at cottage [3] Hazelwood massacre: Detroit: 1971-06-14: 8: Execution-style hit killing at house in Detroit [3] Donald Goines: Highland Park: 1974-10-21: 2: Author of urban fiction murdered with his common-law wife in their apartment: Ann Arbor Hospital murders: Ann Arbor: 1975: 10
Joseph Zerilli (born Giuseppe Zerilli; Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe ddzeˈrilli]; December 10, 1897 – October 30, 1977) was an Italian-born American mobster who rose to power in the crime family known as the Detroit Partnership, leading from the 1930s through much of the 1970s. He immigrated to the United States from Sicily in 1914 at ...
Detroit’s challenges are complex and rooted in its Rust Belt history. Once the global center of the automotive industry, Detroit was the fourth-largest city in the U.S. in the 1920s. Its ...
Peter Joseph Licavoli (June 7, 1902 – January 11, 1984), (nicknamed "Horseface" [1]) was an American organized crime figure in St. Louis, Missouri before moving to Detroit, Michigan. He controlled criminal operations in Detroit and Toledo, Ohio , throughout the Prohibition era .
As in the movie, the Chambers Brothers were also known for taking over an apartment complex known as the Broadmoor on E. Grand Blvd and Ferry St. on the lower east side in Detroit (name was changed to "The Carter" in the film), which was used to house the gang's drug-selling operations.