Posts tagged mafia
Gang calling card for the Logan Square Heads, c.1960s, Chicago
via Stonegreasers.com
The wife of Peter Gusenberg leaves the morgue after identifying her husband’s body, who had been one of 7 killed at 2122 N Clark St during 1929’s St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.
Chicago Tribune Archives
The Carthage Shipping Co,2122 N Clark, site of the St. Valentine’s Day massacre, 1929, Chicago.
Al Capone’s grave, Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, 1959, Chicago.
Looking north on Rush Street, just south of Cedar. Adolph’s, a former well known mafia hang out, is now Carmine’s in the Viagra Triangle, 1953, Chicago
Diagram of a bootlegger’s hideout at 3409 W Montrose, showing how they would go undetected between the distillery and the living quarters, 1930, Chicago.
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Santo Trafficante, mob boss, strongest ally to Chicago Syndicate head Sam Giancana and all-around dapper dude, 1946, Chicago.
Photo of a group of Chicago police detectives on an outing, 1937.
I know detectives are called dicks, but this caption is hilarious.
Lexicon of Chicago gang slang from The Gang: A Study of 1,313 Gangs in Chicago, published by the University of Chicago, 1927.
via The Hope Chest, Bad News from the Past
The Comic House, a bar next door to the Biograph Theater, 2431 N Lincoln Ave, taking advantage of a recent situation to drum up some business, 1934, Chicago….
Roger Touhy, a Capone rival, moments after a mob hit at 125 N. Lotus. The murder occurred just weeks after Touhy finished serving 26 years in prison. He had been framed by Capone for the kidnapping of Max Factor’s brother.
Olempio “Ole Scully” Scalzitti, murdered by the Black Hand in a restaurant at 1421 W Taylor St. before he could testify in a kidnapping trial, 1928, Chicago. Five of his crew had their arms and heads broken with baseball bats during the same attack.
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A stiff price to pay for selling alcohol, 1930, Chicago.
Looking south at the 2100 block of N Clark Street (just north of Dickens and Armitage), 1929, Chicago.
The building on the near right is where the Valentine’s Day Massacre took place.
Mugshot of the ruthless Tony Spilotro, enforcer for the Chicago Outfit in Las Vegas, 1979, Chicago.
Tony met his end by being savagely beaten in Bensenville, then driven to Indiana and buried alive with his brother in a cornfield. Joe Pesci’s character, Nicky Santoro in Martin Scorsese’s Casino, was based on Spilotro.
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