It has been discussed quite a bit. 28 made members was from years ago. Each crew operates as almost a separate family. Aiuppa set that structure up in the 80's. The Northside/Rush Street Crew and Grand Ave Crew are aligned with Elmwood Park - DiFronzo. Cicero Crew and Chinatown Crew have an alliance. There is a Chicago Heights crew as well that operates in NW Indiana and other parts of Indiana as well. Marcello from Cicero made new members before he went away. Chinatown Crew is my opinion is still very capable of violence. The Outfit still has political influence in the city and the suburbs. The Outfit maintains a lot of power through their associates. Offshore casinos, video poker machines, bookmaking, loan sharking, real estate development, restaurants, auto dealerships, nursing homes, abortion clinics, motion picture industry, construction, trucking, Chicago futures exchanges, nightclubs, unions are the rackets. They have associates in San Diego, LA, Las Vegas, Florida. Certainly not as powerful as they once were, but it is a different Outfit. I still think a lot is going on contrary to other posters.