The Outfit's drug ties are very extensive and what not many people realize is that a lot of Sicilians lived in suburbs like Melrose Park and Addison and neighborhoods like Bridgeport and Grand Avenue even through the 1980s and absolutely ran the cocaine that flooded the city in that period (all of the shit that flew through Rush Street and the nightspots)

Here are two drug crime stories that were never tagged to Outfit heavyweights and thus stayed well under the radar, but were both fucking brutal and showed exactly how these guys operated:

Dino Tintone, Tullio Infelise, Aldo Fratto:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-07-09/news/9807090241_1_killings-trunk-cold-blooded

Carmen Sarlo, Joe Bravieri & Ricky Zuniga:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1988-...e-drug-slayings