I think part of the Outfit's foundation was the corruption in Chicago. Someone on a documentary said once that the difference between NY and Chicago is that in NY the mafia existed in spite of the government whereas in Chicago the two were in collusion with each other, from the ground up. The city's not controlled by those mob friendly officials anymore. I know people still like to say Chicago is corrupted but that's just political banter. It's nothing like it was 50 years ago.

"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea