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	Mafia Cities - Chicago
		Outfit control of gambling was accomplished partly by muscling in on the existing gamblers in the area and partly by expanding what the Capone Mob was already involved in.
		In fact, the Outfit did such a good job of laying low that federal agents, including Eliot Ness, declared the Capone gang finished in 1932 and the Bureau, embracing this view, believed that organized crime in Chicago was inactive until the mid-1940s.
		The story of the Outfit in the decades after the death of Frank Nitti is largely the story of Tony Accardo and Paul Ricca, who served as Accardo’s advisor and superior after being released from prison in 1947.
	www.carvelli.com /noFlash/mafia-cities-Chicago.html (5314 words)

	Chicago Outfit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, the Chicago Outfit is distinct from its cousins, the "Five Families" of New York's La Cosa Nostra.
		2.2 Torrio-Capone and the birth of the Chicago Outfit
		The Outfit was alleged to be involved in the assassination of President Kennedy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chicago_Outfit (1725 words)

	Laborers-LIUNA Chicago Outfit Has Turned Smart
		Organized crime in Chicago is not limited to the traditional; see story, page 69.) The startling drop in Mob hits had led experts and the public alike to conclude that the Outfit had simply dried up and gone away.
		The fact that law enforcement agencies cannot agree on who is the leader of the Outfit is astounding to Howard Abadinsky, a professor of criminal justice at St. Xavier University in Chicago and the founder of the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime.
		Johnson speculates that the Outfit might have suspected that Jarrett was skimming gambling proceeds, or that he sought to climb the ladder of succession too quickly after the death of LaPietra, or that he had a serious disagreement with a high-ranking member.
	www.laborers.org /ChicagoMag_Moblite_12_00.htm (4577 words)

	History of Gangs in Chicago
		The Chicago School, of which Thrasher was a part, beleived the industrial economy and the American Dream would assimilate all ethnic groups, sooner or later, and dissolve their gangs.
		Al Capone replaced Johnny Torrio as the head of a network of neighborhood gangs which later became what is called the "Outfit." Chicago had the nation's highest rates of violence as reformers attempted to destroy the bootleggers but failed.
		Chicago is still a dual city: one mainly white city located in areas close to the new economy with residents who have high levels of formal education and with moderate to high levels of income.
	www.uic.edu /orgs/kbc/ganghistory/briefhistory.html (964 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Mob Rule
		The thread is the Chicago mob, or the Outfit, and its members have indeed been players in all of the aforementioned major stories, along with quite a few others.
		They became a major fact of life in Chicago, taking their place in a hundred-year tradition of corruption and payoffs that were at once part of the city's romance and dysfunction.
		The assertion that the Chicago Outfit influenced the selection of Harry Truman as vice president is unsupported by Truman biographers.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A39367-2002May6?language=printer (687 words)

	Outfit
		Russo, an investigative reporter, pries open the history of the Mob in Chicago, led by Tony Accardo (known as Joe Batters) and his lieutenants Murray Humphreys (known variously as Curly and the Camel), Paul Ricca (the Waiter), and Johnny Rosselli.
		The Outfit is a must-have for the organized crime reader and an essential to any researcher.
		The Outfit bosses were the epitome of style and grace, moving effortlessly among national political figures and Hollywood studio heads-until their world started to crumble in the 1970s.
	www.lukeman.com /Titles/Outfit.htm (1362 words)

	The Lost Don - Chicago Magazine - October 2005 - Chicago
		A retired Chicago police officer accused of acting as a mob mole while he was on the force was located in Arizona.
		It is to suggest an appreciation of Joey the Clown as a consummate Chicago character whose story in many ways tells the story of the Outfit in the past half century.
		Though trying to pierce the Outfit's veil to determine who is really in charge is a bit of a parlor game, mob watchers alleged that when Lombardo left prison in 1992, it was as the boss of a smaller, quieter version of the Chicago mob.
	www.chicagomag.com /Chicago-Magazine/October-2005/The-Lost-Don/index.php?cp=1&si=0 (1270 words)

	Chicago's Man in Vegas: Anthony Spilotro - The American MAFIA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Outfit was reportedly offended by a series of violent outbursts by Caifano (who changed his name to Johnny Marshall) that it understood were bad for business in Vegas.
		The exposure of the court case was a nightmare to the Outfit.
		Outfit bosses decided that Anthony could not be left alive to avenge his brother.
	www.onewal.com /maf-art11.html (2799 words)

	The American "MAFIA" - Chicago Crime Bosses
		The Capone gang, which became known as the Chicago "Outfit," was not at all a Mafia organization at its start.
		Chicago's Mafia family was run first by the Genna clan and later by the Aiellos.
		The Colosimo-Torrio-Capone group battled the Gennas, Aiellos and their allies in a quest for a piece of the Chicago rackets and an equal standing with Sicilian crime families.
	www.onewal.com /maf-b-ch.html (601 words)

	Federal Bureau of Investigation - Chicago Field Division - Press Release - June 15, 2005
		Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced today that a reward of up to $20,000 is being offered for information leading to the location and arrest of suspected "Chicago Outfit" members JOSEPH "The Clown" LOMBARDO and FRANK "The German" SCHWEIHS.
		SCHWEIHS, whose last known address was in Dania, Florida, is described as a white/male, 75 years of age, 6' tall, 180 pounds, medium build, with gray hair and brown eyes and walks with a slight limp.If convicted of the charge against him, RUSSELL faces a possible sentence of up to 20 years of incarceration.
		The public is reminded that an indictment is not evidence of guilt and that all defendants in a criminal case are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
	chicago.fbi.gov /pressrel/2005/jun-15.htm (356 words)

	With Chicago arrests, Mafia takes a hit \| csmonitor.com
		CHICAGO – The indictment of 14 Chicago Mafia members might well be an episode of The Sopranos, complete with nicknames, "made" mobsters, family intrigue, crooked detectives, murders that go back decades, and a detailed explanation of a structure that includes capos, sotto capos, and a consigliere.
		Along with being a colorful description of "The Chicago Outfit," the indictment is one of the biggest attacks yet on organized crime in the city of Al Capone - and a reminder that the Mafia, while weaker, still exists beyond the TV screen.
		According to the Chicago Tribune, Nicholas Calabrese, a "made" man who worked for South Side Street Crew (one of four such Chicago crews), was connected to the 1986 murder of John Fecarotta through evidence given by his nephew.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0427/p03s02-usju.html (1224 words)

	DIELAND: Mob: The Chicago Outfit
		Drug Dealing was banned in the Outfit and it was because Ernest was not "made" and that he was not directly involved in the the Outfit that he was not killed.
		Charles Nicoletti was the top hitman for the Outfit in the 1950s and 1960s and was said to have plaid a role in atleast 40 gangland killings since the 1950s.
		He was well liked by the Outfit but when he was indicted in for the Pendorf case, the Outfit thought he couldnt withstand the long prison sentence, even through he did complete a prison sentence earlier.
	members.fortunecity.com /sosdie/mob/family/chicago/chicago.htm (5517 words)

	abc7chicago.com: Future of the mob in question 9/28/07
		After years of relative calm in the ranks of the Chicago outfit, the FBI is concerned that there could be a bloody power struggle for control of the mob.
		The outfit has no bill of rights or "orderly succession." Sometimes in the mob, your next position is face down in the trunk of a car.
		The pursuit of Outfit rackets such as illegal gambling, loan sharking, prostitution and health care fraud would be further damaged if there was a second round of indictments and a sequel to Family Secrets is expected.
	abclocal.go.com /wls/story?section=news/local&id=5681103 (500 words)

	The Outfit
		The major problem confronting Nitti was how the Outfit could maintain the level of profits that had been pouring into the organization due to organization.
		A vacancy in the leadership position of the Outfit was announced and Paul Ricca, who had worked his way up through the Capone organization, assumed the role of leadership.
		While Ricca's ideas may have had a large impact on the Outfit, it was difficult to tell since he was convicted in the same Hollywood Extortion that had confronted Nitti.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/4017/36501 (508 words)

	The new 'Outfit'
		The Chicago Outfit is simply too decimated to be doing much more, brought low by relentless federal prosecutions and changing times.
		Adding to the Outfit's problems, many top mobsters moved from the city to the suburbs years ago, abandoning those tough old Chicago neighborhoods that were always the mob's best recruiting grounds.
		The importance of the machines to the Outfit was made apparent in the recent investigation of reputed West Side and DuPage County mob boss Anthony Centracchio, who died in August 2001, former Stone Park Mayor Robert Natale and others.
	www.angelfire.com /sc/Centner/Rosemont1.html (5371 words)

	Organized crime in Chicago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		March 15, 1910 - The Chicago Vice Commission, a civic organization to close the brothels and panel houses of the Levee district, is organized.
		The Gangster Disciples are formed on the south side of Chicago in the 1960's by uniting two separate gangs.
		April 14, 1973 - Outfit loanshark Sam DeStefano is shotgunned to death in his garage by his brother Mario and his former protégé Tony Spilotro.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Organized_crime_in_Chicago (1845 words)

	The Chicago Outfit Makes Its Move by Ron Chepesiuk
		The Chicago Urban League and the National League of Justice petitioned the Chicago Crime Commission to help them stamp out Chicago's policy racket, which they claimed was corrupting the public's morals and taking millions of dollars from fl families on the Southside, many of whom were on welfare.
		Immediately, the Chicago police and the FBI began a nationwide man hunt for two suspects in the Jones kidnapping: Grover Duliard, a suspect in the killing of Harry "Red" Richmond, a West Side bookie and a former bodyguard of mobster Bugs Moran, and Virgil Summers, who was wanted in a series of bank robberies.
		The Outfit tried to work out a deal with him, but he refused, even after his men started showing up dead in alleyways, shots were fired that put his wife and kids in danger and his house was bombed.
	www.crimemagazine.com /07/black-gangsters,0907-7.htm (6073 words)

	Chicago Laborers District Council
		Welcome to The Chicago Laborers District Council, the unofficial yet authoritative source of accurate information for rank and file by rank and file.
		This district council was put into trusteeship in February, 1998 for being under the influence and control of the Chicago "Outfit", the organized crime "family" that has ruled Chicago's corruption businesses since the early 1920's.
		Chicago RICO complaint and Consent Decree and related files
	members.tripod.com /laborers_chicago/Index.html (83 words)

	Ex-Lawman Tries Nonprofit Sector \| Crain's Chicago Business
		Founded in 1919 by a group of Chicago businessmen, the commission once had a high profile as a watchdog organization, bashing lenience and corruption in police stations, courts and jails, according to the Encyclopedia of Chicago.
		He joined the FBI in 1969, and arrived in Chicago in 1976 to investigate organized crime.
		He has three big near-term goals for the commission: publish a book detailing all the gangs operating in the Chicago region, buy billboard and other advertising space to warn convicted felons not to use guns, and publicize the threat of child sexual exploitation on its Web site, he says.
	chicagobusiness.com /cgi-bin/news.pl?id=19248 (588 words)

	The Civil War Over Vegas
		By the mid-1980's the Outfit in Chicago was gaining the benefits of the wealth pouring in from their control of Las Vegas.
		The Outfit also felt that since the geographic area of Vegas was to the west of the Mississippi it should be under their major control.
		In 1977 an agreement was made in which the Chicago Mob agreed that they would seek no interest in the gambling in Atlantic City, allowing all of control to fall into the hands of the New York Families.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/organized_crime/36951 (457 words)

	Experts: Chicago mob diminished, but still going - USATODAY.com
		CHICAGO — Robberies are "scores," criminal charges "beefs" and getting sent to prison "going away" in the language of witnesses testifying at Chicago's biggest mob trial in years.
		Still, like the men on trial, the Chicago Outfit is also showing its age, say some who have studied it.
		Chicago's mob probably lost some of its power because many of the illegal activities it once made money from are now legal — or might as well be.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2007-08-26-chicago_N.htm?csp=34 (1093 words)

	Sam Reaves- The Outfit (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nowadays, “Outfit guys want their sons to become investment bankers—that’s where the money is.” The big illegal money is in drugs now, and the fl and Hispanic gangs dominate that.
		Roemer was head of the FBI’s organized crime squad in Chicago in the sixties and seventies.
		Izzi was a genuine Chicago tough guy who turned his experiences into tough-guy novels before dying mysteriously (probably a suicide) in 1996.
	samreaves.com /sr_outfit.php (605 words)

	Chicago LCN - The MAFIA Site
		One thing that differentes the Chicago Outfit from the LCN in other cities is its acceptance of non-Italians into relatively high positions.
		Under Capone, the Chicago Outfit became perhaps the most disciplined and wealthy organized crime group in the country.
		Al Capone was sent to prison in 1931 for tax evasion, where he was sentenced to 11 years, but was released in 1939 because he was in the last stages of syphilis.
	mafiasite.8m.com /chicago.htm (2120 words)

	abc7chicago.com: Ratting Out the Outfit 6/07/07
		For decades in Chicago and Las Vegas he was a robber by trade and a killer by necessity.
		When Cullotta makes his next court appearance this summer in the case against 14 accused Chicago mobsters, prosecutors are expected to have him explain the outfit's historical hierarchy and testify how lead defendant Joseph "Joey the Clown" Lombardo has been Chicago's top hoodlum.
		For the record, defense lawyers in the Chicago case note that Cullotta's testimony has not always resulted in convictions, something they hope will be the case during this summer's trial.
	abclocal.go.com /wls/story?section=news&id=5371396 (822 words)

	The Chicago Syndicate
		The event was held in the large ceremonial courtroom on the 25th floor, the same courtroom in which Mars faced down and convicted the Outfit bosses: the brutal Frank Calabrese Sr., Joey "The Clown" Lombardo and Jimmy "Shamrock" Marcello; the quiet enforcer Paulie "the Indian" Schiro; and corrupt Chicago cop Anthony "Twan" Passafiume Doyle.
		It was Doyle, the police messenger boy for the Outfit's Chinatown crew, who perhaps gave Mars his greatest praise on a government tape, a recording taken when members of the Outfit were panicking about the growing case against them.
		Chicago machine politicians were shrieking that the FBI should spend less time on corruption and more on chasing two-bit gun cases.
	www.thechicagosyndicate.com (3812 words)

	The Beachwood Reporter
		Joey "the Clown" Lombardo and several alleged Outfit compatriots go on trial this week in what may be the last housecleaning of the oldtime Chicago mob.
		The man in perhaps the loftiest position, however - the one thought to be most intimately familiar with Chicago mob matters, and the final link to the Outfit's glory days of Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo, the infamously mobbed-up First Ward, and organized crime's glittery reign over Las Vegas - that suspect could not be found.
		It was a coup for Chicago, a reverse Brock-for-Broglio.
	www.beachwoodreporter.com /people_places_things/the_secret_life_of_joey_the_cl.php (2346 words)

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