Being from the area and working in the Southside I've got to say that ANYONE thinking they can list anything accurately in Chicago has another thing coming. If you concentrate only on the Italians you'll never get the scope of it. Torrio realized early that the only real factor is money, the only nationality is money and that's how the outfit works.

Gus Alex, Murray Humphreys, Ralph Pierce, Billy Dauber etc. "Can you make money?" that's the only question. Gamblers in Cal City may remember "Gold Man" who most certainly was not Italian. To try and view the Outfit like an East Coast family is not possible in many ways. Overly formalized thinking patterns don't work there.

Chicago is in fact a template for what's happened in general with most of organized crime in the United States in modern times, expansion, retrenchment and invisibility. Chicago was the first to look West and only because they did were gangsters like Bugsy Siegel drawn there in the first place. Anything West of the Mississippi as far as Eastern mobsters went, the first cut went to Chicago. Nowadays, who can say? The businesses are so deeply entrenched at this point, it would be finding needles in stacks of needles. Don Angelini's kid is a lawyer for Christ's sake. Slicker and no longer in the old neighborhood much. Northwest Suburbs and NW Indiana and in chambers of commerce. Baboom.