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Vincenzo Colosimo [2] (Italian: [vinˈtʃɛntso koˈlɔːzimo]; February 16, 1878 – May 11, 1920), known as James "Big Jim" Colosimo or as "Diamond Jim", was an Italian-American Mafia crime boss who emigrated from Calabria, Italy, in 1895 and built a criminal empire in Chicago based on prostitution, gambling and racketeering.
The story about Big Jim Colosimo's death is the one non-fictional story in The Ivory Tower. As seen in the pilot, Frankie Yale murders Jim on orders from Johnny Torrio. It was widely believed that Torrio ordered Colosimo's killing so that he and the Chicago mob could enter the lucrative bootlegging business, which Colosimo opposed out of a ...
Passed through Oak Woods Cemetery, in Chicago, Illinois, today and stopped to look at "Big Jim's", vandalized mausoleum. The date of death inscribed in it, on his tomb, says 1919. Any thoughts on the disrepancy, from the article? Although the structure has room for six, "Big Jim" is the only one occupying it. Dr. Dan 04:18, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
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1919 – Under the tutelage of forward-thinking racketeer Johnny Torrio, Al Capone stood in front of Jim Colosimo's multi-use house of prostitution the, "Four Deuces", at 2222 S. Wabash Avenue, barkering to male passers-by to enjoy what "Big Jim's" business had to offer. Johnny Torrio also ran Colosimo's holdings from that building.
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