I feel like the Chicago Outfit is a Neapolitan Origin Family/Street Gang and have a Horizontal Structure like the Camorra in Italy for instance all the Bosses up in the 1960/1970s became Sicilian Before that its was all Neapolitan Bosses and Underbosses and and there was No Induction Ceremony with Finger Pricking or Gun and Knife in the Table it was just a Big Lavish Banquet Dinner for New Made Guys and they use Ranks like Crew Boss for Captain and Leiutenant for Soldier and from what Frank Calabrese Jr says High Ranking Associate who run his own Neihborhood or Street Corner can be Considered a Boss don’t know if he’s the Best Source cause his brother Kurt says he lied about a lot of Stuff in his book and Last but not Least it seems the Outfit is a Family/Gang with Neapolitan/Sicilian mixed together from Structure and Rules
The old Outfit changed its structure and rules at least two or three times, depending on who was the boss at the time, and your own definition can be POSSIBLY included regarding different time periods, or from the late 1920's until the late 60's or early 70's. But from the mid 1970's until the late 1980's we can witness more traditional picture but after that, we can only speculate on what really went down, and Im sure that they went even more "low-key" and today we might be the witnesses of two different groups without a top administration. Back in the old days or before the Capone mob, there were two separate Sicilian families in Chicago (they possibly had two reps for the national mafia connections, hence Lolordo's and Bacinos' presence on that national 1928/29 mafia meeting and they allegedly represented Chicago's factions) and as the decades passed by or after 100 years, its quite possible that today history repeats itself. For example, two groups such as the Cicero/Lake County/South Side/Chi Heights/Indiana group (possibly under Caruso and Cataudella/Ferriola) and the Elmwood Park/Grand Avenue/Near North Side/Near West Side crew (possibly under Vena and Dote). In the recent Gagliano case, they are mostly EP/Grand guys, meaning its not like in the old days when you usually had both Cicero and EP guys working together, or from Chi Heights and some Northsiders.
Dont forget that by the early 1990's and later during the mid 2000's , 3 or 4 old Outfit crews were completely erased, meaning the old Cicero-Melrose Park crew (Ralph Capone, Maddox, Aiuppa, Carlisi, Tornabene, Marcello, Zizzo), the old Chinatown, Loop and South Side crew (D'Andrea, Roti Sr, Ferraro, Skids Caruso, Alex, Marcy) (the new Chinatown crew as taken over by the Cicero-Buccieri-Torello-LaPietra group), the Chi Heights crew (Roberto, Ammirato, LaPorte, Pilotto, Tocco, Palermo, Morgano), and also the old North Side crew (DeGeorge, Prio, DiBella, Solano). So, the Ep/Grand and Cicero-Chinatown crews are the only ones out there.
Today everyone is looking for who's the new boss or who are the top three members, but if they dont have any top admin and only remain in business partnership, they can easily go under the radar. They obviously still have some "street" operations going on, but their main target for the last two decades is legitimate enterprises and city contracts, like on who is going to pick up the garbage around Melrose Park or at O'Hare airport, or on who is going to place driving signs around MP and Grand and also own the best printing firms.....just saying.
