by Villain » Mon Feb 01, 2021 11:35 pm
SolarSolano wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 9:33 am
Interesting anecdote on Anthony Pinelli being the inventor of so-called 'trunk music.' I'd love to learn more about some of these earlier guys like him and Grautadaduro and Morgano and where that crew came from. Never associated him as a killer more of a top hoodlum who was used as an intermediary in California in his later years - though I'm sure like all, they were violent in younger years.
By the mid 1940s, Pinelli, Morgano etc. belonged to the old Northwest faction or until the conflict occurred. In 1945, Pinelli fled the city and went to LA but still had some bookmaking ops in Chicago which were headed by his associates, while Morgano owned a pizza restaurant on the Near North Side.
By the early 1950s there many Sicilian, Mainlander and non-Italian clans, mostly associated with the Chicago Heights faction, that controlled northwest Indiana but in 1952/53, Pinelli was brought back to Chicago and became a capo for the Indiana crew and brought his old associates like Morgano, Gruttadauros, Zizzo etc. but probably again under the jurisdiction of the Heights mob.
Now, you might ask yourself what the hell were guys from Rogers Park, Rush St, Grand Av and Taylor St doing all the way in northwest Indiana? Well this might be the best proof regarding the connection between the old Northwest and Chicago Heights Mafias and their close cooperation back in the days of Prohibition. It seems that some old Northwest Sicilian members like Pinelli already very well knew the Chi Heights, C City and northwest Indiana areas, probably with the help of their previous connections to some of their former Sicilian associates from those same territories.
There were also guys like John Formusa and George Dicks who came from different crews but belonged to the "newly" created Indiana crew or were closely associated with them.
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Interesting anecdote on Anthony Pinelli being the inventor of so-called 'trunk music.' I'd love to learn more about some of these earlier guys like him and Grautadaduro and Morgano and where that crew came from. Never associated him as a killer more of a top hoodlum who was used as an intermediary in California in his later years - though I'm sure like all, they were violent in younger years.
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By the mid 1940s, Pinelli, Morgano etc. belonged to the old Northwest faction or until the conflict occurred. In 1945, Pinelli fled the city and went to LA but still had some bookmaking ops in Chicago which were headed by his associates, while Morgano owned a pizza restaurant on the Near North Side.
By the early 1950s there many Sicilian, Mainlander and non-Italian clans, mostly associated with the Chicago Heights faction, that controlled northwest Indiana but in 1952/53, Pinelli was brought back to Chicago and became a capo for the Indiana crew and brought his old associates like Morgano, Gruttadauros, Zizzo etc. but probably again under the jurisdiction of the Heights mob.
Now, you might ask yourself what the hell were guys from Rogers Park, Rush St, Grand Av and Taylor St doing all the way in northwest Indiana? Well this might be the best proof regarding the connection between the old Northwest and Chicago Heights Mafias and their close cooperation back in the days of Prohibition. It seems that some old Northwest Sicilian members like Pinelli already very well knew the Chi Heights, C City and northwest Indiana areas, probably with the help of their previous connections to some of their former Sicilian associates from those same territories.
There were also guys like John Formusa and George Dicks who came from different crews but belonged to the "newly" created Indiana crew or were closely associated with them.