That Outfit thread which was made by our board member SimonChen reminded me of a organized crime chart which i personally created some time ago. This is a collection of the most prominent non-Italian members of the Chicago Outfit during the era of the group's peak, meaning between the mid 1950's and mid 60's.

The Near South Side and Loop

This was the oldest, largest and leading non-Italian group within the Chicago Outfit which was headed by Jake Guzik. After the death of Guzik in 1956, the group was headed by Murray Humphreys until 1965. The group controlled various illegal operations such as gambling, prostitution, policy games, vending machines but above all union, police and political corruption. In fact, this was the main corruption squad for the Outfit. The group controlled the Near South Side and Loop and had shares in various operations all around the city and they also had operations in Hot Springs, Arkansas; Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada; and Miami, Florida.


Top gangster

Murray Humphreys – overlord of the union racket in Chicago and died of natural causes in 1965 and was succeeded by Gus Alex. Considered a member of the Chicago Outfit, top level gangster and advisor for the whole leading administration of the crime organization


Members (individuals with direct contact to Italian made members)

Gus Alex – took over every connection or operation that Guzik ever possessed but by the end of the day Alex still answered to Humphreys. He was mainly involved in political corruption, laundering illegal cash and vending machine operations. Considered a member of the Chicago Outfit

Sam Alex (Cassopolis,Michigan) – former union racketeer and elder statesman of the group. Considered a member of the Chicago Outfit

Gus Zappas – union racketeer and front man. Also handled gambling operations in Garry, Hammond and Whiting, Indiana

Louis Arger - prostitution

William Fishman - prositution and front man

Nick Kokenes – handbook operations and card and dice games (operated in the Cicero area for Gus Alex)

Tony Alfervic – handbook operations and died of natural causes in 1962

Thomas Kennefick – handbook operations

Phil Katz – handbook operations (previously operated on the North Side but later transfered in the Loop area under Gus Alex)

William Novak – handbook operations

Jack Humphreys - handbook operations (brother of Murray Humphreys)

Maish Baer aka Morris Saletko - burglary and fence, handbook and loan sharking operations (also shared his operations with Les Kruse, the boss of Lake County)

Frank Zimmerman - handbook and loan sharking operations

Harry Chase – handbook operations (by the mid 1960’s, Chase was transferred to the West Side crew)

Phil Scher - handbook operations (by the mid 1960's retired from the business and became frontman for the Outfit)

Julius Epstein - bagman and messenger

Sam Gearis - collector (started operating for Gus Alex in the Loop area during the early 1960's but belonged to Italian boss Fiore Buccieri from the West Side)

Arnold Gearis - collector

Irving Gordon - loan shark collector


Operators

Handbook operations

Louis Zoltek

James Kegley

John Drury

Cruz Duran

Samuel Leto

Leo Bloom

Johnny McDonald

Sherry Gordon


Card and dice games

George Hobson


Prostitution

Curley Fishman

George Alex (brother of Sam and Gus Alex)



Associates

Mickey Farr – fight fixer

Sidney Korshak – lawyer and labor consultant

Marshall Korshak - Illinois State Senator

Everett Dirksen - Senator

William Dawson - U.S. Congressman

Eugene Bernstein – tax lawyer

Mike Brodkin – lawyer

George Bieber - lawyer

Benjamin Jacobson – member of the First Ward Democratic Committee

John O’Brien - influential member of the Teamsters Union

Frank Chesrow - Chairman of the Board of Chicago Sanitary Commission

H. L. Hunt - oil tycoon from Huston, Texas

Dr. William Nestos - front man and also a known abortionist among Chicago Outfit circles

Kyran Phalen - Deputy Commissioner of the Chicago Police Department

James Hackett - Police Captain

Pete Harlib - Police Sergeant

John O’Shea - Police Sergeant

Edward Kirby - Police Sergeant

Rosey McLaughlin - Police Captain

Harold Enright - Police Captain

Nick McLean - Police Lieutenant

Frank O’Sullivan - Police Captain

Police Captain Frank Pape - during the early 1960's became the chief of security at a Outfit owned race tracks

Detective Brian Connelly - bagman and messenger for Frank Pape


Front men

Leo Lenit or the Spudeas brothers fronted almost every stripjoint for Louis Arger and Gus Alex in the Loop area, including Few of the most prominent and lucrative joints were Eddie Foy’s Club at 754 South Wabash, Cabana Club at 514 South Wabash, Holiday Lounge, The Rouge, The Brass Rail at 52 West Randolph St., the Chez Parisian, the Paradise Arcade and the Kitten Lounge

Fred and Harvey Goldberg - fronted the Harvey Wrecking Company

Sam Kaplan - main frontman in many building projects and also fronted the Town Parking Station Inc. and D-Lel Garage Inc.

George Kamboras - owner of the H&H Restaurant




The South Side


This faction was maybe one of the most lucrative crime groups because its main illegal income came for the highly lucrative policy racket and handbook operations, and above all the group was in association with the African-American underworld. As additional info, from the early 1960's this group was considered a part of the Near South Side and Loop crew.


Top gangster

Ralph Pierce – took after long time South Side crime boss Sam Hunt, somewhere around the early or mid 1950’s. Besides having a large non-Italian group under his rule, he also controlled a large Italian group. Considered a member of the Chicago Outfit


Members (individuals with direct contact to Italian made members)

Hyman Godfrey – chauffer, bagman and policy games. Considered a member of the Chicago Outfit

Peter Tremont– policy games (died in 1956)

Bernard Posner – policy games

Joseph Whalan – handbook operations

Malcolm Coleman – handbook operations

Sam Pardy – policy games

Sammy Bell - card and dice operations

Arthur Markovitz aka Louis Markle - handbook operations


Operators


Policy games

Florine Stevens

James Irving

Thomas Anderson

Daniel Gaines

Lacey Rankin – robbed and killed in 1958

Wallace Jefferson

Edward Jefferson

Joseph Ridgel

Emerson Winn

Nathaniel Turner

James Simms

Gus Pope

William Harris

Roy Smith


Handbook operations

James Smith

Robert Likas

Charles Carroll

James Petkins

Hayward Baker

Lindsey Green

Donald Smith

Frank Hannon

Theodore Cummings

Walter Coleman

Jack Korman

Mike Markovitz aka Markle

Rudolph Stonewall

Joseph Sotiros


Cicero

The non-Italian faction of the Cicero area was also one of the oldest crime factions of the Chicago Outfit, which was formed during the Capone era. The crew was mostly involved in the bookmaking operations and card games but they also had their fingers in the coin machine racket and union corruption. As additional info, during the late 1950’s, one half of the Cicero area was taken over by the rising West Side Italian faction and so I consider this so-called non-Italian group of the Outfit as the weakest one of them all at the time.


Top gangster

Claude Maddox – jailed in 1956 and died two years later and was succeeded by Joseph Corngold. After the death of Maddox, the new Outfit boss Sam Giancana gave parts of the Cicero area to his underlings Fiore Buccieri and William Daddano. Maddox and Corngold were both considered members of the Chicago Outfit


Members (individuals with direct contact to Italian made members)

John Patton - handbook operations, ex-Capone member, also controlled rackets in Burnham and Stickney, Illinois (died in 1956)

Gustav Kringas – handbook operations

John Kringas – handbook operations and political connections

John Varlas – handbook operations and card games (also shared his operations with Gus Alex from the Near South Side)

Charles Maleck - handbook operations

Harold Robin – handbook operations

Thomas Pauloski – handbook operations

Ben Cutler - handbook operations (also shared his operations with the West Side faction)

George Photakis – handbook operations (also shared his operations with Gus Alex from the Near South Side)

Willie Williams – card games

Harry Duran - collector

James Ginsburg - loan sharking collector


Operators


Handbook operations

John Wall

Charles Casie

James Georgoniakis

Deno Sanichas

Paul Adams

Leo Hanke

Harold Breez

William Herbst

John Kochanski

George Bobis

John Perri

Harry Lucas

James Barnes

Frank Rage

Mike Novak (brother of William Novak from the Near South Side)


Card and dice games

Theo Andrews

Richard Hartman

Theodore Trakos

Spiros Trakos

Walter Szymanski

Ted Grabowy

Nick Galanos (mainly operated for the upper west side crew but also had operations in the Cicero area, which is why he was killed in 1975 when Joey Aiuppa became boss of the Outfit)

Peter Miller (by the late 1960's Miller operated in Las Vegas, Nevada)


Front Men

R. J. Johnson and Harry Milner - the Taylor & Company organization

James Blakeley - international vice president of Local 450, the Bartenders, Waiters, Waitresses, and Miscellaneous Workers' Union

Ed Hanley - in 1962 became president of the Culinary Workers



North Side


The non-Italian faction of the North Side area fell heavily under the rulership of the Italian mob somewhere around the late 1940's. The non-Italian faction this area also wasnt the ordinary gang with a leader and crew members, but instead it was a collection of various non-Italian gangsters who controlled certain individuals and fully cooperated with the Italian mob

Top gangster

William Johnson – reputed head of gambling operations on the North Side who fully retired by the mid 1950’s and was succeeded by William Goldstein. After that Goldstein became the gambling boss along Hudson Avenue. Goldstein was considered a member of the Chicago Outfit

Ken Eto - heavily involved in the numbers operations or Bolita, which was one of the most lucrative operations for the North Side faction of the Chicago Outfit. He was also involved in loan sharking and card and dice games. Considered a member of the Chicago Outfit

Joe Arnold - this guy controlled a large loan sharking Italian crew and by the mid 1950's, they handled $500,000 a year juice loan racket. Considered a member of the Chicago Outfit

Irving Dworetzky aka Dworett - loan sharking and alleged contact man with the rest of the midwest crime families (in 1962 was sent to Los Angeles to open up a cigarette vending machine business). Considered a member of the Chicago Outfit


Members (individuals with direct contact to Italian made members)

Aaron Oberlander - handbook and coin machine operations

Barney Gaylord – card and dice games and handbook operations

Stuart Brown – handbook operations

Bess Burlin – card and dice games

Steve Soupas – card and dice games

Robert Smith - prostitution

Mandel Skar - frontman and handbook operations (killed in 1965)

James Williams - policy, card and dice games and narcotics (also operated on the South Side and West Side)

George and Nick Bravos - the brothers were mainly involved in loan sharking and handbook operations. Even though they operated mainly on the North Side, they shared their profits with the Melrose Park crew and Gus Alex from the Near South Side

Robert Furey - prostitution and collector

Nenos Solomon - collector

Pete Arnstein (Miami, Florida) - prostitution


Operators

Handbook operations

Louis Kopple

Edward Camp

Sandy Wilborn (Cedar Lake, Indiana)


Card and dice games

Paul O’Brien

Paul Huffman

Ralph Williams

Vernon Bailey


Prostitution

Eileen Curry


Bolita operations

Raymond Choy

Oda Tsutomu

Kazutoka Moto

Stanley Imoaka


Associates

Mathias Bauler- 43d Ward Alderman and Democratic Committeeman


Front men

Kenneth Leonard - fronted the Universal Cigarette Service Co.

Wilbur Clark - front man at the Desert Inn casino in Las Vegas, Nevada



Lake County


This crew operated on the territory which was controlled by Outfit big shot Rocco Fischetti and gave his share but this group also was considered a part of the Near South Side and Loop crew. During the early 1960’s, Fischetti gave his operations to this non-Italian crew from that area.


Top gangster

Les Kruse – this guy started his career together with his father Arnold Kruse, who used to work for the gambling magnate Moe Annenberg. Later Kruse became the main guy who went back and forth to Las Vegas and oversaw the Outfit’s operations. He was also one of the leading members in the “invasion” of the Dominican Republic. Considered a member of the Chicago Outfit


Members (individuals with direct contact to Italian made members)

Gus Liebe – handbook and card game operations

William McGuire – extortion, loan sharking and handbook operations and front man

John Drew – casino skimming operations in Las Vegas, Nevada

Thomas Griffin – handbook operations and card games

Frank Dowling – handbook operations and card games


Operators

Handbook operations

George Robb

Giochi Hiromoto (previously worked with the North Side crew)

Arcadia Arroyo


Associates

Porfirio Rubirosa - Dominican Ambassador in the U.S.



Lawndale and Rogers Park

This Jewish crew was formed during the mid 1950’s in Chicago after the return of Lenny Patrick and Dave Yaras from Cuba. In Chicago, the group operated in Lawndale and West Rogers Park (in this area they shared interests with Ross Prio and Joe DiVarco) and also in Miami Beach, Florida and Dallas, Texas. As additional info, this group was one of the most powerful crews within the Outfit, even among the Italians, during that particular time period


Top gangster

Dave Yaras – mostly involved in handbook operations and controlled the Teamster Local 320 in Miami, Florida where during the early 1960’s he used to spend most of his time but still held interests on Chicago’s West Side. Considered a member of the Chicago Outfit

Leonard Patrick - took control of the crew from Dave Yaras during the early 1960’s when Yaras decided to spent more time in Miami. Patrick is a long time gambling boss of the 24th Ward with headquarters at the Douglas Park Hotel. He was mainly responsible for spreading the crew’s operations on the North Side. Considered a member of the Chicago Outfit


Members (individuals with direct contact to Italian made members)

Joe Epstein - handbook operations, elder statesman for the crew and possible organizer of this particular faction. As additional info, according to one FBI memo this guy once won a sit down with Phil Alderisio, which was chaired by Sam Giancana. Epstein was considered a member of the Chicago Outfit

Ben Epstein - handbook operations, ex-Capone associate and Joe's older brother (retired by the late 1950's)

Paul Dorfman - union racketeer and main contact for the Outfit to union leader Jimmy Hoffa

William Block - hit man, handbook operations and lottery jars on 35th Police District but in 1959, Block fled the city of Chicago for unknown reasons and went to Los Angeles. Considered a former member of the Chicago Outfit

Jack Patrick – handbook operations and front man

Meyer Patrick – loan sharking

Morris Goldstein - loan sharking

Donald J. Hammond – strong-arm tactics and prostitution

Allen Dorfman - step-son of Paul Dorfman, during the late 1950's became involved in union corruption. He was also main front man which included for the Aldor Insurance Agency Inc., Amalgamated Insurance Agency Service Inc., West Coast Incurance Consultants Inc., Southwest Insurance Agecny, Union Insurance Agency of Illinois, and plenty more. Also main contact for the Outfit to union leader Jimmy Hoffa

Frank Rosenthal (Miami Beach, Florida) – handbook operations

Sam Yaras (Dallas, Texas) - handbook and coin machine operations


Operators

Handbook operations

Ben Olshansky

Eugene Luffman

Norm Rottenberg

David Yagoda

Sam Skolnik

Walter Tardy

Meyer Retsky

Nathan Blumenthal

Harold Sawyer

Sam Ehrenberg (also handled few handbook operations in the Loop area)

Robert O’Connor

Tim Dorsey

Ben Chockler

Art Becker

Sheldon Perlman

Eddie Gilman

George Shuman

Bernard Greenberg

Jack Ruby (Dallas, Texas; jailed in 1963)


Loan sharking

Ruby Wolfar - collector

Harry Levine - collector and front man at the Reliable Products Company at 3328 Roosevelt Road

Buddy Cowan - collector


Prostitution

Irving Nudleman

Donald R. Hammond


Card and dice games

Bill Finkel (died of natural causes in 1958)

Max Nettler

Bob Griffin

Jack Forkash

Ben Gagerman

Itzer Levinson


Other various illegal operations such as burglary, extortion, frauds etc.

Harry Kovin

Henry Hebda

Martin Frazer


Front men

Irving Singer and Ben Orloff were front men at the Black Angus Restaurant on 7127 North Western Avenue and the Silver Frolics club at 500 North Wabash Street, both joints in the Rogers Park area and were also fronts for handbook and loan sharking operations

The Goldberg brothers and Morris Alters fronted the Park Row Hotel at 4144 West Roosevelt Road and the Rex Hotel at 3128 North Ashland Avenue. The places were fronts for handbook operations

Haywood Fairfax fronted the Cherokee Hotel at 3300 block West Douglas Boulevard. This joint was front for handbook and loan sharking operations

Sam Harris fronted the Lawndale Restaurant at 3714 West Roosevelt Road. This joint was front for handbook and loan sharking operations

Harris Turner fronted the Advance Audit Company at 5 North Wabash Avenue,

Club Specialty Inc. at 1801 West Irving Park Road was fronted by Harry and Stanley Brown

High Life Liquors was fronted by Marilyn Yaras, wife of Dave Yaras

The Luxor Russian Bath House at 2039 North Avenue was fronted by Irving Rosenberg, Leo Schaffel and Robert Foss. This place was used as a meeting place

The Douglas Park Hotel at 3514 West Roosevelt Road and the Top Hat Inn were fronted by Louis Henneck. Henneck operated handbook operations from both places

Big Bear Foods & Supermarket at 3854 West Roosevelt Road was fronted by Phil Geratto

Western Hall at 3242 West Roosevelt Road was fronted by Rabbi Flagler. This place was used for bingo games

The Oxy-Aide Distributors Inc. at 5922 North Clark Street was fronted by Meyer Goldman

Bernard Glickman fronted the Koolvent Corporation at 2100 North California, Chicago

Mike Chernoff and Maurice Weiss fronted the Mike “C” Motor Company 2550 West Lawrence Avenue

Hall Opper, Don Ross and Donald Mitchell were the directors of the Mid West Triumph Inc.

Henry Friedenberg - owner of Acacia Press, the printer of lottery tickets

Eugene Kaplan fronted the Highland Scrap Iron and Metals Company in Hammond, Indiana

The Susco Leasing Company and the Susco Car Rental System, Miami Beach, Florida, was fronted by Ronald and Lenny Yaras and Moe Gittleson in 1959. Ronald Yaras was also the vice president of the Capitol Vending Inc.



Melrose Park


The non-Italian faction of the Melrose Park area also wasnt the ordinary gang with a leader and crew members, but instead it was a collection of various non-Italian gangsters who cooperated with the Italian mob


Top gangster

Leo Rugendorf - main front man for the gang in legitimate businesses, a major mob fence of stolen property and was also involved in large scale loan sharking activities and insurance frauds. Considered a member of the Chicago Outfit (worked with Sam Battaglia, Phil Alderisio, Masrhall Caifano and Albert Frabotta)

Irwin Weiner - bail bondsman and fixer (mainly worked with Phil Alderisio, Marshall Caifano and Albert Frabotta)

John Wolek - card and dice games, loan sharking (retired by the mid 1960's because of alcoholism and gambling debts) (worked with Sam Battaglia)

Thomas Tucker - loan sharking collector (worked with the Bastone brothers)

George Dicks – union racketeer and front man. Also handled gambling operations in Garry, Hammond and Whiting, Indiana (worked with Phil Alderisio, Charles Nicoletti and Gus Alex from the Near South Side)


Operators

Insurance frauds

Lewis Barbe (worked with Masrhal Caifano and was almost killed by a car bomb in 1964)

Herbert Basan

Kenneth Bratko

Allen Widmark

Robert Sacks


Policy games

A. B. Jackson (also handled operations in Northern Indiana)

Will King (also handled operations in Northern Indiana)

James Blake (also handled operations in Northern Indiana)


Front men

Lawrence Rosenberg - served as secretary and treasurer of the Twin Food Products Company

Leroy Sterling and George Harris – owners of the Sterling-Harris Ford Agency

Joseph Stein - fronted the First National Mortgage Company



Will County


This was maybe the smallest group but at the same time, one of the most lucrative. The group also held huge influence within the Italian faction of Chicago South Suburbs.


Top gangster

Francis Curry - main boss of the coin machine racket in that area and handbook operator. Also close friend of the top Outfit boss Paul Ricca. Considered a member of the Chicago Outfit

Members (individuals that had direct contact with Italian members)

Robert Curry - prostitution, gambling and coin machine operations

Al Cohn - coin machine operations

Andrew Allan - coin machine operations

Joseph Barrett - prostitution



Near West Side and Elmwood Park

This so-called criminal clan was formed mostly by burglars and they didnt fully belonged to Outfit, but instead they were associates.

Top gangster

Joseph Panczko

Edward Panczko

Paul Panczko (considered main link to the Outfit through mob lawyer Mike Brodkin and Outfit member John DiFronzo. Panczko was jailed in 1963)


Members

Steve Tomaras

Mike LaJoy (also connected to Outfit member William Daddano. Jailed in 1965)

Larry Fletcher (also connected to Outfit member William Daddano. Jailed in 1965)

Pat Schang (also connected to Outfit member William Daddano. Jailed in 1965)

Edward Cook (jailed in 1963)

Richard Kay (jailed in 1963)

George Krisedovich

Robert Hanahan

Chester Zochowski aka Gray (undercover informant)

Gerald Tomazek

Jim Martin

Lawrence Sylvester

Edmund Gruszykowski

Chester Wrobel

Edward Rawa

Michael McGowen



And the last crew on the list is the so-called “coin machine” crew, which was quite a specific crime group. Under “coin machine” I mean jukeboxes, slot machines and all kinds of vending machines. The group was born in the Cicero area but later had operations mainly on the West Side of the city but the most lucrative thing was that they managed to form operations outside the U.S. such as Central and South America, Europe and the Middle East. That is why, by the mid 1960’s this crime group had no specific territory of its own.


Top gangster

Edward Vogel – long time slot and vending machine boss in the Cicero area, who later managed to spread his operations in the Melrose Park area and the South suburbs, but above all his vending machine operations went way beyond the U.S. border. Considered a member of the Chicago Outfit


Members (individuals with direct contact to Italian made members)

Hyman Larner – boss of the Oak Forest area, various coin machines racketeer, highly involved in various international operations, laundering illegal cash and alleged secret government agent. Considered a member of the Chicago Outfit

Tom Smith – boss of the jukebox machine racket in Chicago. Because of his numerous meetings with top Italian members, Smith might be also considered a member of the Chicago Outfit

Nathan Ladon - bagman, driver and coin machine operations. Because of his constant contacts with top members of the Italian and non-Italian factions, Ladon also might be considered a member of the Chicago Outfit

William Vogel – various coin machines and brother of Ed Vogel

Allan Rothman – various coin machines and front man

Louis Lederer – casino manager in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas and also the Middle East

Eddie Ginsburg – import/export of various coin machines

Alex Ross – collector and enforcer (jailed in 1959)


Operators

Coin machine operations

Frank Garnett

Frank Smith (brother of Tom Smith)

Sam Shanker (Skokie, Illinois)


Front men

Sam Greenberg – president of the Chicago Independent Amusement Association

Joe Mahoney – general president of the Apex Cigarette Service Inc. and also the Deluxe Cigarette Service Inc.

Ross Scheer – fronted the Bally Manufacturing Firm in Chicago which shipped slot machines to Juliano Imports in Panama

Marcel Harrick – Larner’s cousin and front man at the Juliano International, S.A. in Colon, Panama


The Combine


The so-called "Combine" was sort of a "sub-crew" of the "Coin Machine" crew which was involved only in international operations. Now the general managers of this international operation were the bosses and high profile members from many of the non-Italian factions, and they were all overseen by the boss himself Sam Giancana. According to the FBI, the “Combine” had its foothold in Costa Rica and Guatemala, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador and Mexico. As additional info, although the leaders were mostly from non-Italian background, most of the operators were in fact Italians.


Overseers

Edward Vogel

Lester Kruse

Gus Alex

Hyman Larner


Members

Guy Sparta (Kankakee County)

Alan Zimmerman (Kankakee County)

Paul Payne (collector)

Harold Edwards (collector)

Great Work Toodoped

As always, just IMPECCABLE RESEARCH, great stuff Toodoped. Keep em comin!!!

Also, a quick question on the coin machines. Is it correct as it states in the book Outfit, that a lot of, if not most of the slots operated by not only the Outfit, but also Costello and Catena in NY were manufactured in Illinois? In Outfit controlled factories?

It's one of those things I don't think is widely known....

What does your research tell you?

Now that is a List!

I like the information and it is definitely the Really cool, romanticized,fantasized, and Admired list of people that I talked to the old guys about these old guys.

These are the names that filled in the Gaps on how some of this Worked - The Non Italians.

Great Work!!

Was it Sidney Korshak that Joey Lombardo was recorded threatening over some investments? tapes were played at the Family Secrets trial?

Dammm chicago outfit had there shit together

DMed

Thanks a lot guys im glad you liked my post.This was the so-called core of the Outfit because some of these guys learned from the old guys who 'invented' the rackets

@Cabrinigreen yes. Illinois used to be the prime manifacturer of coin machines during that time period but i dont belive that the prime factories were actually controlled by the Outfit