Mob Ledger

Files on the American underworld

Territory

The ground

Where the families in this archive actually kept their headquarters, and where the things in it happened. Four cities, one tab each. Points, not shaded territory — the record supports addresses far better than it supports borders.

The North Side The Loop The South Side The suburbs Lake Michigan N 1 2 3 4 5 6
A schematic, not a survey. The lake is east, and the shape of the city is drawn only to place the addresses against it.

  1. Point1

    North Clark Street

    Lincoln Park, the North Side · The Chicago Outfit

    The garage where seven men were lined against a wall and shot on 14 February 1929. Nobody was ever convicted of it.

  2. Point2

    Cicero

    West of the city limits · The Chicago Outfit

    The suburb the Outfit took over outright in the 1920s, with its own police force and elections, a short drive from the city.

  3. Point3

    South Michigan Avenue

    The near South Side · The Chicago Outfit

    Capone ran the organisation from a hotel on this avenue at the height of Prohibition, a short distance from the court that convicted him.

  4. Point4

    The federal courthouse

    The Loop · The Chicago Outfit

    Capone was convicted of income tax evasion here in October 1931. No bootlegging or murder charge against him ever held.

  5. Point5

    Oak Park

    Immediately west of the city · The Chicago Outfit

    Sam Giancana was shot in the basement kitchen of his house here on 19 June 1975, a week before he was due before a Senate committee.

  6. Point6

    Bensenville

    North-west of the city · The Chicago Outfit

    The 2007 Family Secrets trial established that the Spilotro brothers were killed in a basement here in 1986, not in the Indiana field where they were buried.