I think and it is my impression that The Outfit is different from the other families of the American Mafia, first of all, there has never been in Chicago like in New York a high concentration of Italians, and also in Chicago in 1931 there only one family: The Chicago Outfit or the Capone gang, in addition having always occupied of all the racket, except for drugs and having to the 50s until 1986 controlled the best casinos in Las Vegas. The Outfit has been able to focus on quality as well as the number of its members, so it could reorganize leaving power in the older members taking the low the numbers of made man and increasing enormously the number of the associates, in fact until Calabrese Sr flips and although even now reduced to a number that varies from 28 to 60 made man, the Chicago Outfit maintains a certain political power and can be considered as the most active family outside New York.