The Chicago Outfit

The Chicago Outfit is a crime syndicate that has a strong hold in the City of Chicago. Al Capone was its most famous leader. Through the 20thcentury the Outfit had a stronghold on illegal activities in Chicago. The Outfit manage to destroy all the other organized crime families in Chicago during the 1920s. Since that time, they took over the City of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs, and rule the underworld by using street crews. The Outfit has been romanticized in Hollywood, it has ruled Las Vegas by fear, and almost destroyed by the Family Secrets trial.

1. The film Casino

The film starred Robert Deniro, Joe Pesci, and Sharon Stone, and they portrayed real life people. The film was loosely based on events that happened in Las Vegas, but in typical Hollywood fashion they had to create a story to put on the silver screen. Joe Pesci portrayed the real-life hitman for the Chicago Outfit Anthony “The Ant” Spilotro. Spilotro along with his brother Michael were brutally murdered years later in the basement of a home located in Bensenville, Illinois. The bodies were found in a farm near the border of the State of Illinois and Indiana on June 26, 1986. In the film, Casino Joe Pesci’s character is permitted to say a prayer just before he is killed. Frank Cullota a known associate of Spilotro stated that he believed that asking god for forgiveness was his ticket into heaven. Spilotro was…