Melrose park is slowly but surely transforming into a less depressing (which isn't saying much at all) version of Cicero: you have mob guys still running around in the neighborhood, operating gambling & arming businesses, etc, but the actual Italian American population that resides within the neighborhood is relocating to areas like Bloomingdale, Lyons, etc, and Melrose Park is being Mexican-ized.

Melrose Park in the heydey was legendary, for me the most interesting Outfit territory. That was their playground. And it was a neighborhood that was sort of in limbo territory between Cicero, Elmwood, & Grand. The Melrose Park territory was fought over pretty regularly back in the day.