Talking about Sicilians, does anyone know if the Outfit has ever had some sort of a “zip†crew like some crime families back east? I know that Detroit allegedly has had a tiny Sicilian faction.
By going through the chart posted by Furio, I see a lot of guys with Italian first & last names. Now I’m well aware that Italian-American are quite traditional, so it’s not uncommon to meet a 4th generation Italian with an Italian first name, but this had me wondering.
Also, who is Vincenzo Ercolino the chart allegeds as the “Italian operative�
I know that the Northwestern suburbs have had a constant flow of Italian immigrants (mostly Sicilians) in the last twenty years...
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On a side note: What are the chances that non-Outfit affiliated Italian criminal crews have been operating around Chicagoland? We know this is happening all around North America. Why not Chicago?
There are a ton of Sicilians in Addison and Bloomingdale and a lot of gambling going on - whether or not they are under the Outfit is probably debatable. Two older articles from the 90s, but these were the Outfit's Zips focused on drug sales and gambling at clubs in Addison and I think its kind of coincidental the last names of these Sicilians are "fratto" and "infelice" :
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-02-18-9402200179-story.htmlhttps://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-07-11-9807110155-story.html
