so your basing size/power/activity on indictments & what you read on the internet? Sorry, those things don't happen anymore in Chicago, the guys here possess functioning brains. No need to war with each other any more like savages. NY members are out in the open, they're still performing grimy, menial, street-level tasks. Not that the Outfit aren't, but we are just more discreet/unassuming about our business here.

As far as size goes, the Outfit is right in between the Genovese & Gambino families.

But I digress, this is EXACTLY what the Outfit want people to believe, and it is upsetting because people (even law enforcement at some level) buy into the myth that the Outfit is somehow inactive/crippled. It's simply not true.