Joe Gagliano died in 1970 at the age of 56. He was with the Elmwood Park Crew.

Yes, Grand Ave Crew is still active. Chitown seems to know a lot about the Grand Ave Crew and he is pretty spot on with his postings from what I have seen from my review.

Elmwood Park is not deactivated. Marco D'Amico is a very powerful man in the Outfit.

Outfit men are considered made by their position within the Outfit. There never was a making Ceremony in Chicago.

Nick Calabrese was coached by the Feds to say some of the things he 'Reported'. You cannot take everything he said as the absolute accurate truth. The Feds 'coached' him for awhile before they went on their attack in the Family Secrets Trial.

None of the older Outfit guys ever went through a 'Ceremony' like they do in New York.

Tony Accardo, Joey Auippa, Jackie Cerone, Joe Lombardo, Angelo La Pietra, Vince Solano etc. etc. never went through a Ceremony.

They were all taken into a particular faction and worked on the street level at the beginning. Then, at some point, they moved up and were put in charge of something. At that point they were recognized as high level prominent Outfit men. This also included non Italians like Gus Alex, Ralph Pierce etc.

Chicago's way of doing things was always different than New York.