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The mob in Chicago
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Lords of the Levee
"Bathhouse" John Coughlin and "Hinky Dink" Kenna ran the red-light district in Chicago which was located on the cities near south side. This area consisted of saloons, whorehouses and gambling halls. -
Everleigh Club
The Everleigh Club was a high-class brothel in the city that was owned and operated by Ada and Mina Everleigh. -
Johnny Torrio
Johnny Torrio hired Yale to kill "Big Jim' Colosimo. After he was killed Torrio took over Colosimo's huge criminal kingdom and began bootlegging. -
"Big Jim" Colosimo
He ws murdered after Johnny Torrio hired Yale to kill him. Torrio then took over his entire gang. -
Dion O'Brian
O'Brian was a bootlegger in Chicago and ran teh North-Side gang. On December 19, 1921 he pioneered Chicago's first liquor hijaking. -
Hyme Weiss
Hyme was fatally shot by men from a rival gang. -
Bugs Moran
Moran was a rival of Capone and escaped death after he was the main hit of the St. Valentines day Massacre in which 7 of his men were killed. -
Al Capone
Capone ordered the hit on the North-Side gang and Bugs moran. This hit and mass murder became known as the St. Valentines Day Massacre. -
Sam Giancana
Giancana murdered Theodore Roe, who was a mob boss on the south side that ran a gambling operation. -
Frank Calabrese
Calabrese was a mob boss who was involved in loan sharking and illegal gambling. His arrests date all the way back to 1954. -
Tony Accardo
Accardo became the final Chicago-Outifit leader until his death in 1992. -
Joseph Lombardo
Lombardo was charged with bribery and extortion and was sentenced to 14 years in prison. -
Joe Aiuppa
He was arrested and put in prison for 18 years because he was skimming profits from Las Vegas casinos. -
Anthony Spilotro
Spilotro was a mobster that ws suspected, by teh FBI, for being responsible for 22 murders at the time of his death in 1986.
