Originally Posted By: HuronSocialAthletic
You mean when those guys died out?

Yeah, like I said, when Italians in Chicago began to assimilate, the Outfit began to crumble. The primary farming areas within the city limits were the Taylor Street & Patch neighborhoods. Even as early as the 70s, those areas were becoming less & less ethnically Italian.

You can blame some of that on UIC. Destroyed a lot of Taylor St