William Hogan, Jr. Hogan and his family controlled Teamster's Local 714. In fact the Hogan dynasty had control of this union since the great depression and faced a constant barrage of alleged ties to organized crime, corruption in the movie industry and ties to businesses owned by the Outfit.

How influential were the Hogans? yeah they probly abused their power but and they simply big cos the Irish held political control of Chicago for so long or did they have more than a semi-legit connection to organized crime in the city.

Give us what you got Chicago seems the Hogans had a pretty good run.

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