well, the outfit certainly had a colorful and violent past. what was so surprising to me from reading so many books about the outfit, [the outfit, gus russo being the latest] was how much money, and power they had, I mean in their heyday they ruled Chicago absolutely.

and they had so many cities under their control, that in spite of what some people may believe, they rivaled the five families in new York city

never have mobsters controlled a city like the outfit controlled Chicago.


" watch what you say around this guy, he's got a big mouth" sam giancana to an outfit soldier about frank Sinatra. [ from the book "my way"