The so-called Chicago Mafia, the notorious Chicago Crime Syndicate, is a large mafia organization with the city of Chicago in the northern United States as its main scope of activity, and has been active in the south of Chicago since 1910.
Although the base camp is in Chicago, this mafia organization is not only active in Chicago, the Chicago mafia is spread throughout the Midwest of the United States, and even can extend its tentacles to Florida, and the Chicago mafia has a strong control over the midwest underworld including Idaho and Wisconsin, and its directly controlled sub-gangs include the Idaho family, the Las Vegas gang, and the Nebras family.
Since its inception, the Chicago Group has appointed other ethnic groups other than Italians as high-ranking cadres, the most famous of whom is Jack Guzke, the "bribery money dealer", and even today.
Since its founding in 1910, the Chicago Mafia has not wanted to do serious things, through the crazy operation of the group to enhance its position in the Chicago area, with profit as the fundamental goal, engaged in criminal activities including fraud, bribery, collusion, burglary, coercion, labor fraud, robbery, usury, drug trading, buying and selling of thieves, money laundering, murder, illegal gambling, extortion and so on. In addition, because the Chicago mafia has long become a deep-rooted "ground snake" in Chicago by bribing the local police forces, and every time the police sweep will be avoided by them in advance, its development has never been broken in the 110 years since its establishment.
Before 1920, the Chicago Mafia was not on the table and was still fighting with the nearby Mafia, but as Capone took over the gang and intimidated and bribed officials, the Chicago Mafia rose rapidly and was able to get away with it. During the 1920s and 1930s, the Chicago mafia used the Thompson submachine gun in large numbers, arrogant enough to hold a submachine gun and shoot at the police, which was one of the main reasons why the U.S. Congress passed the National Gun Act in 1934 to restrict the possession and use of fully automatic weapons.
During the ensuing economic crisis and war years, the Chicago Mafia accelerated its growth through extortion, gambling, and loan sharking, and even interfered in the Hollywood film industry, as the U.S. government had no time to take care of the Chicago Mafia. In 1943, the U.S. government arrested and imprisoned several of the top leaders of the Mafia at the time, but through strong political connections and loopholes in the American bureaucracy, these people only squatted for 3 years to wash away their heavy sins, and then the Chicago Mafia began to be more low-key, so it became almost impossible to be eradicated.
In the 1960s, the power of the Chicago Mafia reached its peak. With the help of the Jewish gang boss Meyerlansky, the Jewish lawyer and broker Sidney Koshak, and the president of the International Freight Driving Union, Jimmy Hofa, Accardo embezzled truck drivers' pensions in his casinos and invested heavily in money laundering.
On April 25, 2005, the U.S. Department of Justice began a "mass purge" of Chicago mafia territories, and under the Anti-Fraud and Anti-Corruption Organic Act, the jury convicted James Marshallo, Josefron Brondo, Frank Carabris I, Paul Silo, and Antoni Doyle, and other chicago mafia executives on various charges, including ransom, illegal gambling, tax fraud, usury, and murder.
Although entering the 21st century, the strength of the Chicago mafia has shrunk severely, but it still has a certain scale, and the current leader came to power in 2014, that is, Salvador Lawrence, nicknamed "Soli D", and in order to avoid the leader being investigated by the FBI, the Chicago mafia also has a street boss who presides over daily activities, the latest leader is Albert Wiena, nicknamed "Falcon".