"The Outfit maintains a lot of power through their associates. Offshore casinos, video poker machines, bookmaking, loan sharking, real estate development, restaurants, auto dealerships, nursing homes, abortion clinics, motion picture industry, construction, trucking, Chicago futures exchanges, nightclubs, unions are the rackets."

All possible, but not a shred of evidence. A lot of these are simply businesses owned by past members or family of former Outfit members.

John DiFronzio has less pull with the motion picture industry at this point than the guy who played Belky Bartakamous.

They controlled all that through the theater unions. I don't think there are any theater unions left. If there are, Chicago is certainly not controlling them, LOL.