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Earl J. "Hymie" Weiss (born Henryk Wojciechowski; [1] January 25, 1898 – October 11, 1926), was a Polish-American mob boss who became a leader of the Prohibition-era North Side Gang and a bitter rival of Al Capone. He was known as "the only man Al Capone feared".
The North Side Gang, also known as the North Side Mob, was a primarily Irish-American criminal organization within Chicago during the Prohibition era from the early 1920s to the mid-1930s. It was the principal rival of the South Side Gang , also known as the Chicago Outfit, the crime syndicate of Italian-Americans Johnny Torrio and Al Capone .
1898 – Future North Side Gang leader "Hymie Weiss" (Earl Wajciechowski) was born. A well-rounded crook, capable of accomplishing many criminal trades, Weiss was also a childhood friend of Dion O'Banion. Weiss has been credited with the gangland term, "take for a ride (a one-way ride)". [23]
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.
CHICAGO — The now-convicted son-in-law of former Cook County Democratic boss Joseph Berrios was allegedly “good friends” with notorious mob hit man Frank “The German” Schweihs and once ...
October 11 - Earl "Hymie" Weiss, North Side Gang leader; October 11 - Patrick Murray, North Side Gang member; November 3 - Hyman "Micky" Amberg, member of a Jewish gang in Brooklyn with his brothers; around November 28 - Theodore Anton, associate of the Chicago Outfit; around December 16 – Hillary Clements, member of the Sheldon Gang
James Earl Jones' net worth at the time of his death. Jones' extensive and prolific career helped his net worth climb to an estimated $40 million at the time of his death, ...
The brother of James Weiss, the politically connected business owner convicted in June of bribing two state elected officials, has been charged with lying to federal investigators about his ...