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Giancana was the notorious boss of the Chicago Outfit for 1957 to 1966 — only nine years, but an eventful nine years. As ...
Fifty years ago, a Tribune reporter got an overnight tip that led to a scoop of one of the biggest hits in Chicago mob ...
Salvatore "Solly D" DeLaurentis is the best known, un-incarcerated Chicago mob figure today-and considered "consigliere" to the Outfit. DeLaurentis, 79, was released from federal prison in 2006 ...
What Outfit? Then there are the county judges, such as the late Frank Wilson and others, who fixed Outfit murder cases. We’ve had more than 1,000 mob murders here since the 1920s, and few were ...
The Chicago Outfit was a force in the city for decades, believed to be behind hundreds of unsolved murders, but is the mob still active today? The answer is yes, but not in the way you'd expect ...
CHICAGO -- Robberies are "scores," criminal charges "beefs" and getting sent to prison "going away" in the language of witnesses testifying at Chicago's biggest mob trial in years. Jurors have ...
CHICAGO (CBS)-- Since the 1980s, Frank Coconate has owned a high-powered rifle that once belonged to a Chicago Outfit hitman, and now Coconate wants to sell it. Coconate showed off the rifle as he ...
The murder of so-called independent bookkeeper Hal Smith by the Chicago mob on February 7, 1985, was the day the world changed for the Chicago Outfit.
Chicago mob historian John Binder says the movie got it wrong. Binder, a retired University of Illinois-Chicago professor and Ph.D., has studied the 1960 election and assertions that Outfit vote ...
A new Paramount+ docuseries highlights the role of the Chicago Outfit in a CIA-driven assassination scheme against Cuban president Fidel Castro in the 1960s. Why it matters: Many of the details ...
Ken Tekiela, a Chicago firefighter and father of two, led a secret double life as a hitman for the Chicago mafia. His story is being told by his son Kyle in a true-crime podcast.
Chicago mob historian John Binder says the movie got it wrong. Binder, a retired University of Illinois-Chicago professor and Ph.D., has studied the 1960 election and assertions that Outfit vote ...