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James "Jimmy Poker" DiForti – former loanshark and secretary-treasurer of International Laborers Union Local 5 in Chicago Heights. In July 1997, DiForti was charged with the 1988 murder of William Benham. DiForti died on June 6, 2000. [129] James "Jimmy I" Inendino – former underboss [127] and capo of the Cicero Crew.
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.
Operation Silver Shovel was a major United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probe into political corruption in Chicago during the 1990s. By the end of the probe illegal activities from labor union corruption to drug trafficking, organized crime activity and elected city officials on the take were unearthed, and corruption convictions were handed out to 18 individuals.
1934 – Colorfully versed Mob "girlfriend" and Mob courier Virginia Hill came to Chicago to be a coochie dancer at the 1933–34 World's Fair. She eventually became more than "arm candy" for some of the top brass in the Outfit, before she moved on to others and eventually to Genovese Family mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel .
Toggle Chicago subsection. 2.1 ... This list includes Italian American mobsters and organized crime figures by region and by American Mafia ... Jimmy Caci – capo ...
Harry "The Hook" Aleman (January 19, 1939 – May 15, 2010) was a Chicago mobster who was one of the most feared enforcers for the Chicago Outfit during the 1970s. Aleman got the nickname "Hook" from his boxing career in high school. [1]
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.
Charges dropped in federal juice loan extortion case that had roots in Chicago mob probe. Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune. Updated March 25, 2024 at 3:31 PM. Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/TNS.