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John "Johnny Bal" Balistrieri [31] — the younger son of Frank Balistrieri, the former boss of the Milwaukee family. John served as lawyer until 1984, when his license was suspended and he was later disbarred. In August 2014, John Balistrieri's application to reinstate his law license was rejected by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. [40]
Frank Peter Balistrieri (May 27, 1918 – February 7, 1993) was the crime boss of the Milwaukee crime family from 1961 to 1993. He was a central figure in the skimming of Las Vegas casinos during the 1970s and 1980s, and served several prison sentences.
Willem Dafoe, actor, from Appleton, WI., lived in Milwaukee while with Theatre X in Third Ward; before moving to NYC where he spent 10 years before becoming well-known. Peter V. Deuster, diplomat; Gene DeWeese, author; Dustin Diamond, actor, "Screech" from Saved by the Bell TV sitcom; resided in Port Washington; Joseph Doe, U.S. Assistant ...
John Balistrieri was born in 1948, around the time his father, Frank, was "made" — formally initiated — into the Milwaukee La Cosa Nostra family, according to an FBI affidavit, as reported in ...
Calvary Cemetery contains a monument dedicated to the approximately 430 people who died with the sinking of the Lady Elgin on Lake Michigan in 1860. Most of those lost in the tragedy were from Milwaukee's Third Ward Irish community and is the second greatest loss of life seen on the Great Lakes.
Kenneth M. Stampp (1912–2009), historian (Milwaukee) John Toland (1912–2004), Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author (La Crosse) Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932), historian, known for his Frontier Thesis (Portage) T. Harry Williams (1909–1979), Pulitzer Prize-winning historian (Hazel Green)
Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm in April 2021. E. Michael McCann served for decades in the role before being succeeded by Chisholm, who took office Jan. 1, 2007.
A committee appointed by members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in 1847 established Forest Home Cemetery on what would later become Milwaukee's south side. When the land was selected it was located nearly two miles outside of the city limits along the newly built Janesville Plank Road (now Forest Home Avenue), in an area believed to be far enough from urban development to remain rural. [4]