I don't know too much about Chi Town but considering they were one family compared to NY with 5 families they did hold a lot of weight in running tons of rackets and had the political clout. To me they were a tight family with not a lot of snitches infiltrating their crews. So that being said they were an elite family imo.
When did anyone refute the fact that they were elite? They were considered the #3 family in the country during their prime and Al Capone & Mooney Giancana (to a lesser extent) are two of the most internationally well known gangsters in history.
