Regarding Accardos rise as boss...as we all know in 1943 the Outfits top leadership like Ricca, D'Andrea and Campagna were jailed, while Nitto Killed himself.

So accrding to old time First Ward representative and Outfit associate Dan Serritela, the main guys who continued on taking care of all "Capone activities" were Accardo, Charles and Rocco Fischetti, Tony Capezio, Jake Guzik and Murray Humphreys.

So if Accardo became official boss in 1947, then who led the Outfit during the previous three years?

But we also have few sources saying that Charles Fischetti was the boss from 1944 until 1946, possibly on acting basis since the bosses Ricca and Campagna were still alive. Fischetti was seen holding court in Cicero and possibly he and the rest of the fellas like Capezio and Guzik groomed Accardo for the boss position.

This means that during that period Accardo was either the Outfits underboss under Fischetti or some type of powerful capo and member of the Outfits board of directors. Accardo was also close with the "connection guys" Guzik and Humphreys. In fact both Accardo and Humphreys sometimes acted as lawyers with different names and visited the imprisoned bosses.

Besides collecting "donations" from the whole Outfit for the early release of the bosses, obviously through corruption, during that same time period Fischetti and Accardo were also in war with remnants of the old North Side Mafia/faction, who in turn were betrayed by few of their own aka Ross Prio and the Three Doms. In fact after the elimination of the old North Side rebels, the Fischettis made Lake County on the north as their new headquarters.

In the end or after the second conflict with the Northsiders, Fischetti, Accardo and Guzik managed to eliminate all enemies and also managed to secure the early release of the bosses which occurred in 1947, the same year Accardo became official boss, and also completely controlled the North Side without any problems, obviously through their new ally Prio.