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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...
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  • Samuel "Mad Sam" DeStefano (September 13, 1909 − April 14, 1973) was an American mobster who was associated with the Chicago Outfit. He was one of the...
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  • in Chicago. 1920 – Future Outfit consigliere "Paul Ricca" (Felice DeLucia) came to America from Sicily, at age 23, and eventually landed in Chicago, after...
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  • Paul Ricca (category Chicago Outfit bosses)
    an Italian-American mobster who served as the nominal or de facto leader of the Chicago Outfit for 40 years. In 1958 he was named "the country's most important...
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    Joey Aiuppa (category Chicago Outfit bosses)
    known as "Joey O'Brien" and "Joey Doves", was a Chicago mobster who became a leader of the Chicago Outfit from 1971 until his skimming conviction in 1986...
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    Anthony Spilotro (category Chicago Outfit mobsters)
    and high ranking member for the Chicago Outfit in Las Vegas during the 1970s and '80s. Spilotro managed the Outfit's illegal casino profits (the "skim")...
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    Sam Giancana (category Chicago Outfit bosses)
    was an American mobster who was boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1957 to 1966. Giancana was born in Chicago to Italian immigrant parents. He joined the...
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    Tony Accardo (category Chicago Outfit bosses)
    day-to-day boss of the Chicago Outfit in 1947, to ultimately becoming the power behind the throne in the Outfit by 1972. Accardo moved the Outfit into new operations...
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  • Rudy Fratto (category Chicago Outfit mobsters)
    federal authorities and several Chicago newspapers as a high-ranking member of the Chicago Outfit Gang In 2002, the Chicago Sun-Times called Fratto a "reputed...
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  • Macklin lets the hitman live and sends him back to Chicago as a warning. Bett confesses that the Outfit tortured her and threatened to cut her face up if...
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    Johnny Torrio (category Chicago Outfit bosses)
    16, 1957) was an Italian-born American mobster who helped build the Chicago Outfit in the 1920s later inherited by his protégé Al Capone. Torrio proposed...
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    John DiFronzo (category Chicago Outfit bosses)
    and the reputed former boss of the Chicago Outfit. DiFronzo, a former enforcer and caporegime in the Chicago Outfit, first appeared with a criminal record...
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  • Virginia Hill (category Chicago Outfit)
    an American organized crime figure. An Alabama native, she became a Chicago Outfit courier during the mid-1930s. She was famous for being the girlfriend...
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    Allen Dorfman (category Chicago Outfit mobsters)
    crime via the Chicago Outfit. Dorfman was convicted on several felony counts and was murdered in 1983. Allen Dorfman was born in Chicago, Illinois, in...
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  • Mario Anthony DeStefano (March 21, 1915 – August 12, 1975) was an American mobster and "made" member of the Chicago Outfit who was a leading loan shark...
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  • Jack McGurn (category Chicago Outfit mobsters)
    boxer, mobster, and eventually a made man and caporegime in Al Capone's Chicago Outfit. McGurn was born in July 1902 in Licata, Sicily, the eldest son of Tommaso...
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  • Casino (1995 film) (category Films about the Chicago Outfit)
    follows Sam "Ace" Rothstein (De Niro), a Jewish American gambling expert handicapper who is asked by the Chicago Outfit to oversee the day-to-day casino...
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  • John Roselli (category Chicago Outfit mobsters)
    August 7, 1976), sometimes spelled Rosselli, was a mobster for the Chicago Outfit who helped that organization exert influence over Hollywood and the...
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  • Frank Rosenthal (category Chicago Outfit mobsters)
    percentages at a young age. By the mid-1950s, Rosenthal was working with the Chicago Outfit. Chosen for his expert odds-making ability, he ran the biggest illegal...
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    The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago. The Bears compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club...
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  • operated from Chicago's Little Italy and maintained control over the Unione Siciliana. They were allies with fellow Italian gang the Chicago Outfit. After a...
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  • Saint Valentine's Day Massacre (category Chicago Outfit)
    North Siders, headed by George "Bugs" Moran, and their largely Italian Chicago Outfit rivals led by Al Capone. The perpetrators have never been conclusively...
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    Frank Schweihs (category Chicago Outfit mobsters)
    disgraced Chicago cop, Outfit associate and informant Dick Cain, Outfit boss Salvatore "Sam," "Mooney" Giancana, loanshark Sam "Mad Sam" DeStefano, Outfit hitman...
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  • Sidney Korshak (category Chicago Outfit)
    businessmen in the upper echelons of power and the Chicago Outfit in the United States. His reputation as the Chicago mob's man in Los Angeles made him one of Hollywood's...
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  • Forty-Two Gang (category Chicago Outfit)
    the Forty-Two Gang served as a "farm team" for future members of the Chicago Outfit. Forty-Two Gang members included future syndicate members Sam Giancana...
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  • Michael Spilotro (category Chicago Outfit mobsters)
    and was an associate of the Chicago organized crime organization referred to as "The Outfit". Michael was born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 12,...
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    Big Jim Colosimo (category Chicago Outfit bosses)
    until his death in 1920, he led a gang known after his death as the Chicago Outfit. Colosimo was assassinated on May 11, 1920, and no one was ever charged...
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    Gus Alex (category Chicago Outfit mobsters)
    American mobster affiliated with the Chicago Outfit, who succeeded Jake Guzik and Murray Humphreys as the Outfit's main political briber and "fixer". Alex's...
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  • Fiore Buccieri (category Chicago Outfit mobsters)
    1973) was a Chicago mobster and member of the Chicago Outfit who specialized in loansharking. As a youth he was a member of the Chicago 42 Gang with...
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  • The Chicago Blackhawks (spelled Black Hawks until 1986, and known colloquially as the Hawks) are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago. The Blackhawks...
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