Many american cities had or have a cosa nostra presence. But some were more powerful than others.
Many families had to kind if ask permission to bigger families to made new guys or even to kill some made guy.
Could we say that at the top, you have the five families of New York and the Chicago outfit that are the only cosa nostra clans that don’t ask permission to nobody?
I also read that the new orleans family doesn’t answer to nobody.
The detroit partnership, sometime i read that they answer to New York, sometime i read that they answer to chicago.
Top tier: New York Families and Chicago outfit. **maybe new orleans
Mid tier: new jersey, detroit, cleveland, philly, buffalo, st-louis
Low tier: all the other cities
Originally, ORIGINALLY, ALL families throughout the United States answered to one of the New York crews, and ultimately - The Commission. And that included Chicago and everywhere else. Smaller families on the west coast or in the midwest generally answered to one of the NY families; Luciano, Profaci, Bonanno, Gagliano, Mangano, etc., who in turn, would report to the overall Commission.
By the 1960s +/- the Chicago family was placed in charge of handling "oversight" affairs for many of the smaller families west of Illinois, with Chicago then reporting whatever needed to be back to NY. And years later, by the late 1970s-early 1980s, as the government eradicated Cosa Nostra from several key international unions and their control over Las Vegas casinos, "The Outfit" was allowed to form their own "mini" Commission to govern the midwest out to the west coast (with few exceptions.)
