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The Chicago Outfit (also known as the Outfit, the Chicago Mafia, the Chicago Mob, the Chicago crime family, the South Side Gang or the Organization) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Chicago, Illinois, which originated in the city's South Side in 1910. The organization is part of the larger Italian-American Mafia.
Participants in organized crime in Chicago at various times have included members of the Chicago Outfit associated with Al Capone, the Valley Gang, the North Side Gang, Prohibition gangsters, and others.
The Rockford crime family, also known as the Zammuto crime family, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Rockford, Illinois. [1] [2] In 1960, the FBI confirmed that the Rockford family had remained an independent crime family, even though they were within close distance to the powerful Chicago Outfit.
Angelo J. "The Hook" LaPietra (October 30, 1920– March 28, 1999) was a Chicago mobster and member of the Chicago Outfit, involved in extensive loansharking operations in the city's First Ward during the 1970s and 1980s. It is often repeated that he earned his nickname "The Hook" due to the way he murdered his victims—those that did not, or ...
Michael Magnafichi is a member of the Chicago Outfit, an Italian-American organized crime syndicate based in Chicago, Illinois. He is the son of Lee Magnafichi, who also was a member of the Outfit, supposedly working under John "Jackie The Lackey" Cerone. [1] Michael would later become Jackie Cerone's personal driver.
The G7 leaders’ summit will take place in the southern Italian region of Puglia, where mafia-style criminal groups are alleged to be behind an uptick of violence. ... near the luxury resort of ...
In September 2007, after the convictions of a slew of Chicago-area mobsters in the Family Secrets trial, Sarno was identified by law enforcement sources in the Chicago Sun-Times as being a powerful reputed mobster in the Chicago Outfit, along with Joseph Andriacchi, Al Tornabene, Marco D'Amico and John DiFronzo.
On October 27, 2011, Fratto pleaded guilty in a separate bid-rigging scheme involving forklift contracts for two trade exhibitions at a large exposition center in Chicago. [10] On September 26, 2012, Judge Harry Daniel Leinenweber sentenced Fratto to about 1 year in federal prison, which was significantly less than the up to 2 years in prison ...