You dont think theyre rackets at the largest convention center in north America combined with they're remaining teamster power combined with they're involvement in the union movement and forklifting companies and the fact they have Chicago all to themselves
Make them stronger RIGHT NOW than the Colombo and bonnano families even if they are less than half the size

Also my question to you is we have seen in ny how even though they indict mobsters civilly and are able to
Remove them from they're union positions , they still control the union because they have embedded themselves into these unions as far back as 80 years ago
How you think this isn't the case when they only removed a few mob guys from the union
And don't tell me the steir Anderson report was bs
Because when they're children and cousins etc are involved in controlling not only the union itself but also the pension fund , how that isn't control and influence for them
We can both agree, that the mob overall in the grand scheme of things(despite a few idiots) is very much into achieving an everlasting lifespan and has spent that the last 100 years embedding and weaving itself into the fabric of society
Like with matassa he's a mobster and anything he touches is corrupted because of his station in life and who he represents
I think we have seen wiseguys in Chicago be much more low key
And that the made members of the family are pretty hands off as far as them personally doing everyday violence. We have seen just roughly a month ago Solly Delaurentis, a confirmed member of the Chicago cosa nostra , his partner pay 10k to Peter carparelli to have his crew deliver a beating and break the legs of someone who owed a gambling debt. This dosent suggest a kindle gentler mob, it suggest where unlike in ny where made guys beat up gamblers personally , in Chicago they contract an out and the fact that they can pay 10k for a beating shows the financial robustness of the Chicago mob

To quote peter carparelli "be discreet so they think were dead, let them think they did thyre job , so they go have a beer, high five each other"
Carparelli isn't just coming up with this way of doing business itself
It's the way of the Chicago mob, it's the way his superiors tell him to operate
Its like being a detective you obviously reasonably infer from the evidence and statements that thyre is a lot more going on than we're privy too, that's not public information.
This notion that mob blackballs
Gamblers rather than beat them has proven to be false