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The Chicago Outfit were worried Albergo, a Chicago Outfit associate and enforcer, would cooperate after being charged and arrested for loansharking. [161] [162] [163] It is believed Frank Calabrese was the killer. Robert Pronger: June 17, 1971: Associate: Pronger was a NASCAR driver and car racing champion. [164]
September 27, 1974 – Once complicit with Chicago Outfit activity, area businessman and federal witness Daniel Seifert was gunned down at his Bensenville, Illinois, plastics factory, in front of his wife and youngest son for deciding to testify in a federal investigation as to his knowledge of an embezzled and "laundered" $1.4 million from the ...
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.
Paul De Lucia [1] (born Felice De Lucia, Italian: [feˈliːtʃe de luˈtʃiːa]; November 14, 1897 – October 11, 1972), known as Paul Ricca (/ ˈ r iː k ə /, Italian:), was an Italian-American mobster who served as the nominal or de facto leader of the Chicago Outfit for 40 years.
From the 1940s through the 1950s, he controlled illegal gambling, illegal liquor distribution, and political rackets in Louisiana. In the early 1940s, Giancana was involved in a takeover of Chicago's black American lottery payout system for the Outfit. In 1957, he became the boss of the Chicago Outfit.
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]
1948: Dick Button. American figure skaters didn't have the option of wearing spandex 70 years ago, since the fabric hadn't been invented yet. That's why Dick Button secured the gold medal in Saint ...
By the mid-1940s, Alex was the main liaison between the Chicago Outfit and city hall officials. He exercised control over the Loop's illegal gambling and prostitution operations, including a lucrative call girl operation out of prominent downtown hotels in which many call girls were paid up to $500 to $1,000.