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  2. Frankie LaPorte - Wikipedia

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    Frank "Frankie" LaPorte (October 7, 1901 – October 30, 1972) was an Italian–American racketeer in the Chicago Outfit. [1] He was the Chicago Heights caporegime during the early 20th century. His closest associates in bootlegging included Ross Prio, Louis Campagna and onetime Outfit boss, Al Capone. [2]

  3. List of prematurely reported obituaries - Wikipedia

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    Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...

  4. Albert Tocco - Wikipedia

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    Albert "Caesar" Tocco (August 9, 1929 – September 21, 2005) was an American mobster and high-ranking member of the Chicago Outfit during the 1970s and 1980s. He was the mob boss of Chicago Heights, the south suburbs, and parts of Northern Indiana.

  5. Charles Panici - Wikipedia

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    Charles "Chuck" Panici (December 26, 1930 - December 20, 2017 ) was mayor of Chicago Heights, Illinois from 1975 to 1991. He was also head of the Bloom Township Republican Party from 1978 to 1992. He was born in 1930 in the "Hungry Hill" section of Chicago Heights, a south suburb, which was the home to mainly Italian immigrants in a heavily ...

  6. Managed object - Wikipedia

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    An example of a printer as a managed object is the window that shows information about the printer, such as the location, printer status, printing progress, paper choice, and printing margins. [ 1 ] The database, where all managed objects are stored, is called Management Information Base .

  7. Variety Obituaries - Wikipedia

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    Variety Obituaries is a 15-volume series with facsimile reprints of the full text of every obituary published by the entertainment trade magazine Variety from 1905 to 1994. The first eleven volumes were published in 1988 by Garland Publishing , which subsequently became part of Routledge .

  8. Legacy.com - Wikipedia

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    Legacy.com is a privately held company based in Chicago, Illinois, [1] with more than 1,500 newspaper affiliates in North America, Europe and Australia, [4] [8] [9] including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and Manchester Evening News. [10]

  9. Thrall Car Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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    Both of the Chicago Heights facilities have been redeveloped. Cartersville, Georgia plant. Still owned by Trinity Industries. Clinton, Illinois plant. Harvey, Illinois, Parts Depot. Sometimes described as Phoenix, Illinois. Winder, Georgia plant. This plant operated with a peak employment of over 1,000 in 1998–1999, but a dramatic downturn in ...