Where is the Chicago Outfit today? Here's how Al Capone's death and legalization of gambling and marijuana in Illinois impacted a crime organization.
CHICAGO -- The most notorious hoodlum in Chicago history died on Jan. 25, 1947, and while the criminal organization Al Capone built remains a powerhouse 75 years later, more than a few things have changed.There are not as many bosses because there are fewer street crews. With fewer street crews, there are fewer mob soldiers, who are needed to run a declining number of criminal rackets.
"Good God, the state of Illinois has legalized the lottery, has legalized video poker machines, which are essentially just slot machines," Binder said."The state of Illinois has legalized betting on professional and college sports." Bodies would regularly turn up riddled with bullets as part of an Outfit plot. So many corpses were found in car trunks over the decades that the mob called them"trunk music." The definition of that phrase was provided by one Outfit boss on an FBI recording as"the gurgling sound" made by a decaying human body under the lid of closed trunk.
For decades, police departments, federal law enforcement and the Chicago Crime Commission published intricate family trees that charted who was running what for the Outfit. Those well-publicized diagrams haven't been provided in years, insiders say because of the manpower cost in surveillance and research. They have also said the legal liability of branding hundreds of people as criminals, regardless of whether they were ever charged, is a contributing factor.
DeLaurentis replaced the last Chicago hoodlum who might have been publicly recognized, perhaps because of his mob nickname, John"No Nose" DiFronzo.