PolackTony wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 4:02 pm
To revisit Pietro Catalanotto of Villafranca Sicula, the “Silver King” of Little Sicily and possibly capo or acting capo of Chicago following Rosario Dispenza’s death.
Catalanotto was murdered in Little Sicily in June 1915. Several days later, Antonina LoCascio, née LoVerde, wife of Carlo LoCascio, was murdered in front of her home a couple of blocks away. Her murder was stated to have been revenge for Catalanotto, as her son Mariano “Michael” LoCascio was alleged to have slain the Silver King. Antonina was sitting outside with her 4-year-old grandson, Frank Ingo, when two gunmen opened fire on her and the kid. Frank Ingo was the son of Antonina’s daughter, Angelina LoCascio and Angelin’s deceased husband, Giuseppe Ingo of Lucca Sicula. Joe Ingo had himself been murdered in 1914 when two men opened fire on him with a sawed-off shotgun in an alley behind Hobbie and Milton in Little Sicily, a block from the LoCascio family home. A 12-year-old boy who witnessed the shooting identified Francesco Cannella as one of the assailants. Cannella, from Villafranca Sicula, was another LoCascio brother-in-law, as his wife was Giuseppina LoCascio, another child of Carlo LoCascio and Antonina LoVerde. Catalanotto’s sons, John and Phillip, and Vito Barone (probably from Ciminna and possible sotto capo under Catalanotto) were charged with Antonina’s murder but all were acquitted at trial. In November of 1916, John Catalanotto was shot to death on a streetcar at Belmont and Elston. It was believed that the murder was done by Michael LoCascio and his younger brother John; a witness said that he had never seen a look of hatred as strong on a man’s face as the expression of the man who killed John Catalanotto.
In 1923, Charles Carlino, younger brother of the infamous Pete and Sam Carlino who were engaged in a war for control of the Pueblo mafia with the Danna brothers, was murdered in Colorado. Killed alongside him was Domenico Ingo, stated in the CO papers to have been a Chicagoan. Domenico Ingo was indeed a younger brother of the Giuseppe Ingo killed in Chicago in 1914 (in relation to Pueblo, worth noting here also that their mother was a Colletti). Domenico’s wife was Vincenza “Jennie” Tortorici, also of Lucca Sicula (after Domenico’s murder, she remarried an Alfonso Tagliavore of Calamonaci in Chicago).
Their firstborn son was Frank Dominic Ingo, born around 1918 in Iowa (they apparently moved to Iowa after Giuseppe Ingo was murdered, and returned to Little Sicily by 1920). In 1939, Frank Ingo married Rose
Glitta, born in 1917 in Chicago to Domenico Pasquale “Sharkey” Gliatto and Serafina Gliatto of Greci, Avellino; Rose was the elder sister of later Chicago member Mike
Glitta. This marriage could well be part of the context behind how Mike
Glitta, a mainlander from Taylor St, wound up affiliated with the Northside crew (though this is only part of the story, presumably, as Mike
Glitta was said to have been the driver from Jimmy Allegretti, who was also from Taylor St).
Some other
Glitta/Ingo family info.
Carlo Raymond Ingo, son of Giuseppe Ingo and Angelina LoCascio, was noted by the Tribune in the 1950s as a well-known “hoodlum” with a lengthy rap sheet employed by the Riviera Lounge in Niles, an outfit-run strip club and gambling parlor alleged to have been controlled by Giancana. In 1959, Carlo Ingo shot stripper Debbie Scavo to death at the Riviera; while Ingo claimed that it was an accident, LE had info that the two had a relationship and that Ingo killed her in a jealous rage.
Given that members of the Northside crew attended his funeral in 1972, it’s possible that Domenico “Sharkey” Gliatto was himself a connected guy. Several of his sons, at least, were involved at some level. In 1942, eldest son Daniel
Glitta was busted for operating a gambling room at Roosevelt and Ashland with George Fanelli, brother of Rocco Fanelli and brother-in-law of Jimmy BelCastro. In the 1970s and 1980s, Marco
Glitta was involved in the porn racket with his brother Mike. In 1986, Marco, then an employee of the Metropolitan Sanitary District, was arrested at his Elmwood Park home for purchasing remote-controlled bombs from an undercover ATF agent.
Glitta had previously reached out to a sergeant in the MSD police force to say that he wanted to purchase bombs, and the sergeant then contacted the Feds. While he tried to argue that he only purchased the bombs to “tinker” with them, the ATF claimed that
Glitta had stated that he wanted the bombs to target both a vehicle and a building, and he was convicted in 1987 and sentenced to 8 years. The ATF suspected that Marco
Glitta intended to assassinate Paula Lawrence, a local “pornography mogul” who was a major competitor of Mike
Glitta’s businesses, via car bomb and to additionally blow up one of her stores, noting also that two of Lawrence’s suburban properties had been damaged in suspected firebomb attacks in 1986.
