The outfit seems like more of a suburban operation mostly involved with gambling and loansharking which to be honest isnt going to attract any competition, there sort of lucky in that sense that no other group has any large interest in gambling or loansharking otherwise there status might have been extinct a long time ago. The street gangs control most of the drug trade and big drug markets in chicago with the mexicans or whoever supplying. As far as polictical connections read this article. http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/January-2012/Gangs-and-Politicians-An-Unholy-Alliance/
It most certainly attracts competition. The competition just can't do anything about it. There are plenty of minority street gangs trying to beef with them over gambling/prostitution/drug sales out in stone/Melrose/Elmwood park, along mannheim road & Harlem ave, and other outfit controlled areas. Those neighbourhoods are just too outfit-heavy/heavily Italian. Keep in mind that the Outfit 100% controls law enforcement in: Elmwood park, Melrose park, stone park, Cicero, Berwyn, Westchester, darien, river grove, oak park, Lombard, Chicago heights, island lake, & several other suburbs. Even if the African/Hispanic street gangs wanted to infiltrate the underworld of those areas (we are talking HUGE areas, putting all of those towns together), they would have never been able to make more than a dent, at best paying a street boss tax to operate out of there. Chicago is hyper segregated, the gangs control their own areas. Why would the outfit desire control over blown out crack hole neighbourhoods?
