Good article Ivy. And no doubt Chicago isn't the sixth Family, I would just say due to the fact that the Outfit was so powerful in the past it can still wield a small bit of that power. But not much. The heaviest thing in the ongoing Philly trial is probably the fact that Uncle Joe ripped off a Teamsters health pension fund. That's small potatoes compared to what DiFronzo has under his belt.

I'm no fanboy. It interests me of course. But while they aren't New York's level anymore, you can still put them above Philly and New England IMO. Still enough going on and enough structure to put them a hair above the rest going on outside of NYC.