Originally Posted By: FriedRavioliFarts


85 Oufit and 85 Bears baby! I believe Tominello is 26th Street? Also Chitown did Centracchio switch or something to Melrose Park later on? I remember him getting busted for paying off cops in Northlake, Stone Park, Melrose etc. to protect gambling out that way. Was he with Grand or Melrose?


I think it is very difficult to name who was in whose crew based on territory alone. So many were in so many different rackets. I had always seen Melrose Park as an extension of Grand Avenue and I do know that Centracchio was reporting to Louis Eboli in the early 1980s, who was in turn reporting to Lombardo. I think a lot of guys rotated through crews. Joe Andriacchi for instance came up in the Elmwood Park Crew under Jackie Cerone and Lee Magnafichi. He then however appeared to be running a major portion of Melrose Park and having Grand Avenue guys report to him.