The Chicago Syndicate: Tony Accardo
Showing posts with label Tony Accardo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tony Accardo. Show all posts
Thursday, August 05, 2021

With the Street Gangs Shooting Out of Control throughout the City, would Chicago Be Safer if the Mafia was Again in Charge?

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When I was a kid and told people not from Chicago, the city of my birth and upbringing, where I was from, it wasn’t uncommon for them to rai...
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Tuesday, May 07, 2019

Nick Bosa and Joey Bosa are the Great-Grandsons of the Most Powerful American Mob Boss of the 20th century

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In the first round of the 1987 draft, the Dolphins used the 16th pick to select John Bosa, a defensive end from Boston College. Miami again ...
Friday, March 22, 2019

A Century of Chicago Mob Bosses

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A thumbnail history of Chicago's mob leaders. Dates are approximate. 1910 "Big Jim" Colosimo (1910 to 1920) . Chicago'...
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Friday, January 11, 2019

THE OUTFIT'S GREATEST HITS

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The Chicago Outfit's Greatest Hits from 1920 to 2001. 1920: Big Jim Colosimo is slain in his popular Wabash Avenue restaurant, making...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Hollywood and the Mafia

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Bollywood's connections with the underworld are common knowledge. There is a certain level of romanticism attached to the lives of the m...
Monday, October 08, 2018

Frank Sinatra and the Mob

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"Sinatra and the Mob" Frank Sinatra always denied his ties to the Mafia , and neither government investigators nor the press c...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

John DiFronzo, Leader of The Chicago Outfit, is Dead

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The leader of the Outfit for more than a decade, notorious for his nickname and his cagey demeanor, died on Sunday-the ABC7 I-Team has learn...
Thursday, April 26, 2018

Mob Adjacent: A Family Memoir

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Mob Adjacent: A Family Memoir , takes an acid trip down memory lane as brothers Jeffrey and Michael Gentile , Jr. discover a parallel world ...
Tuesday, August 08, 2017

The Making of the Mob: Chicago

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The Making of the Mob: Chicago , is an eight-episode docu-drama chronicling the rise and fall of iconic gangster Al Capone , as well as the ...
Monday, May 15, 2017

Former Reputed Mobster Michael Magnafichi on Faith

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Michael Magnafichi, once described by authorities as a “made” member of the Chicago mob, raised Catholic, says he prays every night before b...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

My Kiddo, Joe Batters

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Tony Accardo, is, without a doubt, the most successful, the most powerful, most respected and the longest lived Boss the Chicago syndicate, ...
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Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Mob Film 'Idol's Eye' Shuts Down Production,

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Deadline reports that the film’s production company and financier Benaroya Pictures has decided to cut off financing for the movie due to th...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

Robert De Niro to Join Robert Pattinson on Movie About Murdered Burglary Crew That Stole from Tony Accardo #IdolsEye

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Back in 2011 actor Robert De Niro and director Olivier Assayas sat side by side on the Cannes jury. Now they’re making a movie together. Ass...
Monday, May 05, 2014

Review of "A History of Violence: An Encyclopedia of 1,400 Chicago Mob Murders"

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From his boyhood memories of the raid on a bookie joint under the Chicago apartment where he grew up to the murder cases he worked on as an ...