Whatever is happening in Chicago, I think its a shame that things have been so quiet. As demented as it sounds, it sure was nice to hear a story pop up once or twice a year in the paper about mob activity and finding a body in the trunk of a car. That is gone now. As much as some people will deny it, I think the Family Secrets case really put the mob down for the count.

There has to be mob activity still going on in Chicago, its such a huge city. But where the fuck is it?

My guess the money they are making isn't even located in the states. Its gotta be coming from somewhere else.

Someone said the Aruba Casino. I wouldn't doubt that.

If in fact there is activity still going on in the city, my guess would be that Chinatown would be still kicking up some money to the Outfit for protection.

Hi Nicky, are you from Chicago? You guys sure have a great city there. White Sox or Cubs?

I get to Chicago a couple times a year. I always try to get there during the summer and take a ride down the Chicago river.

the "chicago" outfit operates in towns that ain't chicago

they operate in the suburbs around chicago and rural areas of illinois

Whatever is happening in Chicago, I think its a shame that things have been so quiet. As demented as it sounds, it sure was nice to hear a story pop up once or twice a year in the paper about mob activity and finding a body in the trunk of a car. That is gone now. As much as some people will deny it, I think the Family Secrets case really put the mob down for the count.

There has to be mob activity still going on in Chicago, its such a huge city. But where the fuck is it?

My guess the money they are making isn't even located in the states. Its gotta be coming from somewhere else.

Someone said the Aruba Casino. I wouldn't doubt that.

If in fact there is activity still going on in the city, my guess would be that Chinatown would be still kicking up some money to the Outfit for protection.

the "chicago" outfit operates in towns that ain't chicago

they operate in the suburbs around chicago and rural areas of illinois

The big press cases like "Family Secrets" are few and far between. But there have been plenty of less known cases involving the Chicago mob over the past decade. Stuff that may go unnoticed by many if they're not really looking. There was the Anthony Centracchio bust, the Dote bookmaking bust, and the Handhart burglary ring bust in 2000. The Carusos and Joey Lombardo's kid were booted from the Laborers Union in 2001. There was also the embezzlement case out of the Cicero that year. The bingo skimming case in 2002. The Crazy Horse Too bust in 2003. The Hired Truck scandal in 2004. Family Secrets in 2005. The Rockford bookmaking bust in 2006. The Sarno bust in 2009, as well as 2 big video poker raids. Rudy Fratto was indicted in 2009 and 2010.

Michael Posner, who has Outfit ties that go way back, operates the Excelsior casino (formerly the Grand Hotel Casino) in the Holiday Inn Resort in Aruba.



I agree about the suburbs of Chicago but the Outfit's presence doesn't seem to extend beyond Cook County for the most part anymore.

The big press cases like "Family Secrets" are few and far between. But there have been plenty of less known cases involving the Chicago mob over the past decade. Stuff that may go unnoticed by many if they're not really looking. There was the Anthony Centracchio bust, the Dote bookmaking bust, and the Handhart burglary ring bust in 2000. The Carusos and Joey Lombardo's kid were booted from the Laborers Union in 2001. There was also the embezzlement case out of the Cicero that year. The bingo skimming case in 2002. The Crazy Horse Too bust in 2003. The Hired Truck scandal in 2004. Family Secrets in 2005. The Rockford bookmaking bust in 2006. The Sarno bust in 2009, as well as 2 big video poker raids. Rudy Fratto was indicted in 2009 and 2010.

Michael Posner, who has Outfit ties that go way back, operates the Excelsior casino (formerly the Grand Hotel Casino) in the Holiday Inn Resort in Aruba.



I agree about the suburbs of Chicago but the Outfit's presence doesn't seem to extend beyond Cook County for the most part anymore.

how do you know where they conduct business at?

By looking at where the Outfit cases have originated from for over a decade now.

There are no longer any towns in chicago or the surrounding suburbs that are "Mobbed Up". Stop acting like a fanboy. Yes there is still an orginized crime family in Chicago but it's nowhere near as active as the New York famliles. BTW i live in Schiller Park so don't use your "I live here and see it everyday arguement.

are you this guys(ivyleague) lawyer or fanboy?

so melrose park ain't mobbed up? elmwood park? stone park? cicero?

larry dominick got elected again in cicero because the mexicans that live in cicero wanted him to be their town president?

so there ain't a whole host of south suburbs that have activity?

there has always been more mob activity in new york because there are 5 different families in new york so that point is pretty mute

are you this guys(ivyleague) lawyer or fanboy?

so melrose park ain't mobbed up? elmwood park? stone park? cicero?

larry dominick got elected again in cicero because the mexicans that live in cicero wanted him to be their town president?

so there ain't a whole host of south suburbs that have activity?

there has always been more mob activity in new york because there are 5 different families in new york so that point is pretty mute

in other words you don't know which towns are mobbed up

Maybe this will help you out PP. From the Sun Times.........

August 1970: Mob loan shark Michael “Hambone” Albergo is killed at what was then a warehouse at 3300 S. Shields. Now it is a parking lot at U.S. Cellular Field. Outfit members were worried Albergo might implicate them after he was subpoenaed to testify on mob loan-sharking activity. In an unsuccessful attempt to find his body, authorities excavated the area in 2003 after receiving a tip he was buried there.

June 24, 1976: Paul Haggerty is strangled and his throat is slit in a garage in the 2800 block of South Lowe. His body was found — after he had been missing for a week — in the trunk of a car that was towed to the police auto pound. He had been bound, gagged, blindfolded and stuffed into a plastic bag.

March 15, 1977: The murdered and decomposing body of Henry Cosentino was found bound and gagged in an abandoned car in a police auto pound in the 4600 block of West Division. His head was resting on a box of hamburger patties. He had been missing since Jan. 24, 1977.
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Jan. 16, 1978:John Mendell, who allegedly led the burglary crew that robbed the River Forest home of outfit leader Anthony “Big Tuna” Accardo, is strangled and his throat is cut in the same garage in the 2800 block of South Lowe where Haggerty was murdered. Mendell’s body, found in the trunk of an Oldsmobile, showed signs of torture.

Jan. 31, 1978: Vincent Moretti and Donald Renno are murdered in a Cicero restaurant.Both were suspected of being involved in the burglary of Accardo’s home. They were found badly beaten with their throats cut in the back of a Cadillac.

July 2, 1980: Mob enforcer William Dauber and his wife, Charlotte, are gunned down during a high-speed car chase in rural Will County because Dauber was cooperating with authorities.

Dec. 30, 1980: Mobster William “Butch” Petrocelli is brutally murdered at an empty building near 14th and Laramie, his face mutilated with a blow torch.

June 24, 1981: Trucking executive Michael Cagnoni dies when a bomb planted in his Mercedes explodes on the Hinsdale on-ramp to Interstate 294. He ran afoul of the mob and knew it. He had hired a bodyguard, carried a gun and wore a bulletproof vest for a while.

July 23, 1983: Bar owner Richard Ortiz and his friend Arthur Morawski are shot in Cicero. Ortiz is killed because the mob believed he was dealing drugs and had committed an unapproved murder. Morawski was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The gunman reportedly fired eight 12-gauge shotgun rounds into the driver’s side of Ortiz’s parked 1983 Mercury

Sept. 14, 1986: Hit man John “Big John” Fecarotta is gunned down outside a bingo hall on Belmont.

So if you look at those notes, the most mobbed up areas especially the 70's and 80's was Bridgeport and Cicero. Remember the 26th street crew which was the most violent crew back then had their clubhouse located there off 26th street. That location does not exist anymore. The social club has now moved a few blocks away off of 31st street.

From what I have read, its basically a huge country club for the older members to enjoy the last years of their life in peace. When I googled a pic of the place this is what I came across....

There is no town mobbed up the way Cicero used to be, and he won cause he had the most votes not because The Outfit pulled some stings, your stero-typeing Italin American enclaves as mob towns and it's a bit offending. Your hoping for something that is not there, sure some police look the other way for some video gambeling but to say it's mobbed up is an overstatment, and there have been cases in the last decade that have really wiped alot of the political power the fella's used to have, i mean Palatine you to be really lax with some of the fella's but it's not a mob town, Marco bit a Palatine police officers ear off after been pulled for driving druck and walked away scott free but that was years ago it's not what it used to be and never will be again so i didn't mean to offend you but it's a fantasy.

I suppose it depends on how one defines "mobbed up." When you look at the cases, there's certain areas of Chicago and it's suburbs that pop up more than others. So they obviously have more of a mob presence. But getting back to the original point, when you look at the Outfit cases going back over a decade, they're all in Chicago and it's suburbs with few very exceptions.

there are also towns in the southsuburbs that have a mob influence

and those towns have never been mentioned in any indictment

Notice that I never disagreed about the suburbs. I question your post mentioning rural areas.

somebody pulled some strings to get larry dominick elected