Look, all of your information comes from bogus feds, wikipedia, youtube, gangster websites like this one, and frankly it's all horse shit speculation from people that really don't know a damn thing. Where are you from? What neighborhood? Come to Chicago, come see it for yourself, no one's stopping you. Until then, I really don't think you have any place telling people what's what on the matter.

I don't know a goddamned thing about New York, and I don't pretend to. I would never open my mouth up & claim something as fact that I read on the internet, how does that solidify it as truth?

Chicago is gigantic, it will continue to get bigger. It has always been a mecca for crime, what makes you think the Outfit would be weak when there is more money to be made than ever before here? The city is much larger than it was during their heydey.