Originally Posted by Hollander
the Calabrese were in a tough spot.


Not in Chicago, which was the second largest city at the time, and the Mainlanders like Capone, Ricca, Campagna, Nitto and the Fischettis together with the non-Italian groups won the war against the first or second generation of Sicilian Mafia bosses while working for another New York Sicilian group (politics), and controlled the organization or maybe the city of Chicago for more than 50 years, until all of them were gone and Sicilians like Accardo, Aiuppa, Prio and DiBella arrived at the top spots during the early and mid 70s...


He who can never endure the bad will never see the good