Interesting story (a bit long) for those interested in the social changes of traditionally mobbed-up Italian neighborhoods in Chicago:

Tracking The Ties That Bind
By Alfred Lubrano

“Fred Gardaphé ’76 knew that if he didn’t get out of the Mafia-dominated neighborhood where he grew up, he could wind up dead.”

https://onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/features/tracking-the-ties-that-bind/

Is this guy legit? Was his family mobbed up as implied in the article?

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His godfather, his grandfather, and his father were slain here in Melrose, the place some people call “Mafia-town.”