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Chicago Mob
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“Big Jim” Colosimo
an Italian-American Mafia crime boss who built a criminal empire in Chicago based on prostitution, gambling, and racketeering. After migrating from Italy, he gained power through petty crime and the heading of a chain of brothels. He would lead what would become the Chicago Outfit from about 1902 until his death in 1920. Johnny Torrio, one of Colosimo's enforcers, seized control. Al Capone, a Torrio henchman, was, allegedly, directly related to his death. -
Everleigh Club
Everleigh Club- was a high-class brothel which operated in Chicago, Illinois from February 1900 until October 1911. It was owned and operated by Ada and Minna Everleigh. -
Johnny Torrio
An Italian-American mobster who helped build the criminal empire known as the Chicago Outfit in the 1920s that was later inherited by his protégé, Al Capone. He also put forth the idea of the Syndicate in the 1930s and later became an unofficial adviser to the Genovese crime family. -
Dion O’Bannion
was an Irish-American mobster who was the main rival of Johnny Torrio and Al Capone during the brutal Chicago bootlegging wars of the 1920s. O'Banion started a bootlegging during the Prohibition.The O'Banion mob, known as the North Side Gang, ruled the North Side and the Gold Coast, the wealthy area of Chicago situated on the northern lakefront of Lake Michigan. As O'Bannion's name grew in the underworld, he attracted more followers. -
Hymie Weiss
As a teenager, Weiss became a petty criminal and ultimately befriended an Irish-American teen, Dean O'Banion. With Weiss and George "Bugs" Moran, O'Banion established the North Side Gang, a criminal organization that eventually controlled bootlegging and other illicit activities in the northern part of Chicago. -
Bugs Moran(George Clarence Moran)
Al Capone's rival. He was incarcerated three times before turning 21. Seven members of his gang were gunned down in the Saint Valentine's Day massacre. He invented drive-by shootings. -
Joey Aiuppa
Aiuppa rose through the ranks of the Outfit, beginning as a driver for higher ranking Outfit leaders, such as Tony Accardo, before graduating to operating several gambling establishments in Cicero. -
Al Capone
was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate. The Chicago Outfit, which subsequently became known as the "Capones", was dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging liquor, and other illegal activities such as prostitution, in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931. -
Frank Calabrese
He was The Outfit's 26th Street crew boss who provided loans to hundreds of customers at interest rates that varied from one percent to 10 percent per week. If a debtor did not have the money, the Calabrese crew would seize the debtor's car, home and business. At one point, Calabrese gained control of an auto repair shop in River Grove, Illinois when the owner, Matthew Russo, fell behind on a loan. -
Sam Giancana
joined the 42 Gang where he developed a reputation for being an excellent getaway driver, a high earner, and a vicious killer these qualiities got him noticed by Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti, Paul "The Waiter" Ricca and Tony "Joe Batters" Accardo. In the late 1930s, Giancana became the first 42er to join the Outfit. -
Joseph Lombardo
Lombardo began his Outfit career as a jewel thief and as a juice loan collector. In 1963, Lombardo was arrested and charged with kidnapping and loan sharking, but was acquitted after a factory worker who had owed $2,000 and who was behind on his payments could not positively identify Lombardo. Lombardo was referred to as an "up-and-comer" in the Chicago Outfit by the late 1960s. He would take over the Outfit's operations in Las Vegas in 1971. -
Tony Accardo
rose from small-time hoodlum to the position of day-to-day boss of the Chicago Outfit in 1947, to ultimately become the final Outfit authority in 1972, until his death. Accardo moved The Outfit into new operations and territories, greatly increasing its power and wealth during his time as boss. -
Tony Spilotro
an Italian-American mobster and enforcer for the Chicago Outfit in Las Vegas, Nevada during the 1970s and 1980s. His job was to protect and oversee the Outfit's illegal casino profits.
