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Re: Northlake and the Outfit
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03/27/14 06:58 PM
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Thanks Chitown. Would this still be Grand Avenue territory today? To be honest I get really confused talking about the outfit today. Would Melrose Park be with Cicero or Elmwood Park? You know your stuff so I was hoping you might be able to give your input.
Could this even be Solly D's area now or is he father north?
You say share my life, and I think share my tequila. And then I think.... no.-Principal Lewis
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Re: Northlake and the Outfit
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03/28/14 12:13 PM
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Thanks Chitown. Would this still be Grand Avenue territory today? To be honest I get really confused talking about the outfit today. Would Melrose Park be with Cicero or Elmwood Park? You know your stuff so I was hoping you might be able to give your input.
Could this even be Solly D's area now or is he father north? I really have no idea what territory is what now. I personally think the Outfit is less about "territories" and more about "rackets" these days. For example, I feel the Cicero/Southside crew is heavy into the joker poker machines and they probably have those in territory from every crew. Elmwood Park guys like Tony Dote remain focused on the bookmaking and probably take action from Cicero and Grand Avenue. That crew also focuses on labor and bid rigging and probably do construction all over Chicagoland. Grand Avenue is more about street shit like robberies and extortion and probably aren't restricted as to where they can pull that. I think the crews coexist and kick up to each other. Grand Ave is also big into strip clubs and as we've seen through this latest indictment naming Albie Vena, clubs everywhere from Bridgeview to Cicero to Gary were paying him (even though many were in Cicero/Southside territory). So again when there is a power shift or someone goes to prison or dies, I don't think Outfit guys inherit "territory" anymore. I think they inherit specific rackets. Frankly it makes it far more difficult to figure out what is what--I think that's their exact intention. Solly D lives way up north in Island Lake but not sure what he's doing up there beyond helping his wife's business. He still hangs out in the old haunts around Cicero.
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Re: Northlake and the Outfit
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03/28/14 12:23 PM
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Northlake = Melrose park,and to a lessser extent Rosemont/Cicero. Never eally had an "indentity" of it's own at least in my adult lifetime
Last edited by TheArm; 03/28/14 12:24 PM.
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Re: Northlake and the Outfit
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03/28/14 01:11 PM
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Thanks Chitown I really appreciate it. I enjoy your pictures and I have checked some of your info about Chicago and you have been right. I have no grudges against you even though other people might. Look forward to discussing the Windy City with you in the future.
You say share my life, and I think share my tequila. And then I think.... no.-Principal Lewis
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Re: Northlake and the Outfit
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03/28/14 04:30 PM
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@chitown
i don't think u can log cicero and the southside together
the clubs in the south suburbs/northwest indy ain't near cicero
Don't get bogged down or jammed up with proximity and geography, there is an elmwood park connection to the south side gentlemens clubs and a Bridgeport connection to the Lawrence strrt escort services
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Re: Northlake and the Outfit
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03/30/14 07:23 AM
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^^^^
i wouldn't call those gentelmen's clubs
u can get killed in the parking lot at atleast half of the clubs in the southburbs Point well taken...LOL
Been there and done it I am very much for real, so if you ask, make sure you really want to know.
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Re: Northlake and the Outfit
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10/28/14 03:45 PM
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what happened to rocco " the parrot" Potenza. he ran all of north lake years ago. We had a lot of Roccos in Northlake back in the day, but Parrot Nose Potenza was Niles, Palatine kinda guy.
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Re: Northlake and the Outfit
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10/28/14 07:19 PM
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well, in some books Ive read Potenzas family was worth millions after his death. he was extremely powerful and kept his
head down. to this day no one knows much about him, and his family is very, very, low key. no outfit wannabes there. I can believe that. He pretty much ran all the gambling between the Jane Addams and the Tri-state, including the quonset behind the Villa Venice.
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