General Chicago Outfit Info Dumping Ground

[Villain]

I had no idea that Eto’o crew was involved in narcotics but it makes sense considering who his clientele were. Also, Sam Sarcinelli is still alive and living in the south suburbs. He was an investor at polekatz but I don’t think he is anymore. There was a great book that talked about him and his dope connections in California. It’s called “LA Secret Police: inside the LAPD elite spy network” by Mike Rothmiller

Thanks again for the additional info. It seems that Eto was pressured by some of his higher ups to get involved in the dope trade after they began losing their influence over the Bolita racket

[Villain]

That was quick. He plead guilty in less than a month.

Thats the best tactic to prevent further investigation and to receive a lesser sentence...most of the criminals from my neck of the woods are doing the same thing this last decade...i dont know much about the current US judicial system but thats how things go around here

[Patrickgold]

That was quick. He plead guilty in less than a month.

Thats the best tactic to prevent further investigation and to receive a lesser sentence...most of the criminals from my neck of the woods are doing the same thing this last decade...i dont know much about the current US judicial system but thats how things go around here

Your right. He was probably pressured from higher up. Lake County is Solly D’s territory

[Patrickgold]

I had no idea that Eto’o crew was involved in narcotics but it makes sense considering who his clientele were. Also, Sam Sarcinelli is still alive and living in the south suburbs. He was an investor at polekatz but I don’t think he is anymore. There was a great book that talked about him and his dope connections in California. It’s called “LA Secret Police: inside the LAPD elite spy network” by Mike Rothmiller

Interesting. Do you know which higher ups?

Thanks again for the additional info. It seems that Eto was pressured by some of his higher ups to get involved in the dope trade after they began losing their influence over the Bolita racket

[Patrickgold]

Interesting. Do you know which higher ups?

[Villain]

Interesting. Do you know which higher ups?

Prio and DiBella

In 1970 Prio attended a meeting with Ricca and Accardo at Meo's Norwood House in Libertyville, Lake County, Illinois. According to some reports, it was a 90 minute heated conversation between the mob chieftains. The biggest problem for Ricca and Accardo was the downfall of Prio’s illegal enterprises. For example, Prio’s top money making lieutenants, DiVarco and Arnold, were loosing the battle with the rising African-American gangsters in the gambling operations. Also the multi-million- dollar-a-year bolita racket was on the downfall because of the constant raids from the FBI. Ricca told Prio to deliver the word down on the streets and to tighten up the operating procedures in the bolita racket.

According to FBI surveillance, at the lunch Ricca and Accardo had been visibly upset by the arrests of two top bolita overseers with evidence of their operations in hand. Accardo was also upset about the recent imprisonment of Felix Alderisio and the reduced to skimming of illegal profits from the operations of so-called "gay" bars in Old Town, New Town, the Near North Side and the areas of Rogers Park. The reason for that were the raids which were made by the FBI and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. Many of the joints had been raided and copious quantities of booze were confiscated because of the violations of federal and state liquor tax laws. Also the same year Prio’s juice loan and extortion operations were on the downfall because his main guy Jimmy Allegretti was out of prison but died from a heart attack while en route to Chicago from the penitentiary.

So after the lunch, 70 year old Prio jumped in his car and drove to the Lake Forest Oasis on the Tri-State Tollway to make a phone call. Then he continued on to Libertyville to kill time in the marketplace before returning to the Oasis for a half-hour meeting with Ken Eto and Dominick DiBella. Prio pressured Eto and DiBella to make everything in their own power to bring back the bolita operations on higher level. Like all good Outfit soldiers, both Eto and DiBella made the nods and then sped back to their neighborhood on a mission to lay down the law to a network of bolita runners on the Near North Side. According to some reports Eto wasn’t able to bring back the bolita racket to its previous level mainly because the second generation of Latin-Americans got wise, and so he had no choice but to start dealing in narcotics just to satisfy the needs of his Outfit bosses.

[Ozgoz]

So do you think Accardo and Ricca were evil enough that despite knowing the bolita money was down due to market forces, and so completely out of Eto’s control, they said to Eto so what, we want what we were getting before?
Seems a bit unreasonable

[Villain]

So do you think Accardo and Ricca were evil enough that despite knowing the bolita money was down due to market forces, and so completely out of Eto’s control, they said to Eto so what, we want what we were getting before?
Seems a bit unreasonable

They werent "evil enough" to do that, they simply wanted their envelopes and they didnt care from where it came from unless they were secured

[PolackTony]

Interesting. Do you know which higher ups?

Prio and DiBella

In 1970 Prio attended a meeting with Ricca and Accardo at Meo's Norwood House in Libertyville, Lake County, Illinois. According to some reports, it was a 90 minute heated conversation between the mob chieftains. The biggest problem for Ricca and Accardo was the downfall of Prio’s illegal enterprises. For example, Prio’s top money making lieutenants, DiVarco and Arnold, were loosing the battle with the rising African-American gangsters in the gambling operations. Also the multi-million- dollar-a-year bolita racket was on the downfall because of the constant raids from the FBI. Ricca told Prio to deliver the word down on the streets and to tighten up the operating procedures in the bolita racket.

According to FBI surveillance, at the lunch Ricca and Accardo had been visibly upset by the arrests of two top bolita overseers with evidence of their operations in hand. Accardo was also upset about the recent imprisonment of Felix Alderisio and the reduced to skimming of illegal profits from the operations of so-called "gay" bars in Old Town, New Town, the Near North Side and the areas of Rogers Park. The reason for that were the raids which were made by the FBI and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. Many of the joints had been raided and copious quantities of booze were confiscated because of the violations of federal and state liquor tax laws. Also the same year Prio’s juice loan and extortion operations were on the downfall because his main guy Jimmy Allegretti was out of prison but died from a heart attack while en route to Chicago from the penitentiary.

So after the lunch, 70 year old Prio jumped in his car and drove to the Lake Forest Oasis on the Tri-State Tollway to make a phone call. Then he continued on to Libertyville to kill time in the marketplace before returning to the Oasis for a half-hour meeting with Ken Eto and Dominick DiBella. Prio pressured Eto and DiBella to make everything in their own power to bring back the bolita operations on higher level. Like all good Outfit soldiers, both Eto and DiBella made the nods and then sped back to their neighborhood on a mission to lay down the law to a network of bolita runners on the Near North Side. According to some reports Eto wasn’t able to bring back the bolita racket to its previous level mainly because the second generation of Latin-Americans got wise, and so he had no choice but to start dealing in narcotics just to satisfy the needs of his Outfit bosses.

Of course in the 70s DiVarco and Arnold were seen meeting with Cobra Stones chief Mickey Cogwell. Given the struggles they were having with black gangsters in this period as well as the likely push into narcotics by the Northside mob, Cogwell may have been useful on both counts -- e.g., they could've been working narcotics trafficking/distribution with his organization and/or he may have been helping them as muscle vis-a-vis the independent black gambling opposition. Possibly both. I'm sure there's an interesting story around this.

[Ozgoz]

So do you think Accardo and Ricca were evil enough that despite knowing the bolita money was down due to market forces, and so completely out of Eto’s control, they said to Eto so what, we want what we were getting before?
Seems a bit unreasonable

They werent "evil enough" to do that, they simply wanted their envelopes and they didnt care from where it came from unless they were secured

Fuck you, pay me!

[Villain]

So do you think Accardo and Ricca were evil enough that despite knowing the bolita money was down due to market forces, and so completely out of Eto’s control, they said to Eto so what, we want what we were getting before?
Seems a bit unreasonable

They werent "evil enough" to do that, they simply wanted their envelopes and they didnt care from where it came from unless they were secured

Fuck you, pay me!

same shit

[Villain]

By the late 1950’s, 90% of the hauling firms in Chicago were controlled by the Dutch population which became know as the “Dutch Mafia”. They were not some bloodthirsty criminal organization but the thing was that they kept the business among their own people. Some sources say that back in the old days the Dutchmen had the garbage business in their blood and they controlled it since the late 1920’s.

During that period the Dutch scavengers formed their own association to regulate the whole business, which was known as the West Side Garbage Association. The members decided not to compete with each other and traded accounts to concentrate their routes for greater efficiency. Known Dutch families such as the Huizengas or the Van Tholens controlled 90% of the garbage business in Chicago and allegedly profited with over 20 million dollars a year.

But during that time, one of the first gangs which tried to invade their business was the so-called Capone gang. They faced many difficulties with union goons, mobsters, police harassment, and in later years, environmental regulations. The Dutch scavengers had problems with one corrupt teamster local known as the Excavators’ Union, which was headed by Daniel Tognotti or Tagnetti, a member of the Capone gang. By defying Tognotti’s union, the Dutch took it rough.

One day, one Dutchman saw his barn burning down to ashes, along with his horse and wagon. The “Caponites” also pulled many people out of their cars and kicked them right there on the street, in broad day light. But one night, reports of a shooting at Union hall, 220 South Ashland Avenue, brought five detective bureau squads to the meeting of business agents of various unions.

The entrance was first denied to the two motorcycle policemen from the Warren avenue station with the threat "break down the door and we’ll shoot your heads off." When the cops managed to enter the hall, they found no evidence of any shooting and explanation was made that an alleged fist fight had occurred between two members. But the police later learned, through an anonymous telephone call, that Tognotti had been shot in the fight, and was taken away immediately afterward and later died.

So more than 20 years later, Sam Giancana’s administration wasn’t much respectful one either, and that is why they furiously took the first step in taking over the garbage disposal business in their city. By this period few of the Outfit’s “best guys” in the garbage business were Willie Daddono and his lieutenant Rudy Fratto, followed by John Roselli, Albert and Rocco Pranno and Frank LaPorte.

For example in 1958, since Roselli was one of the main guys for the Outfit in Las Vegas, Nevada, he became Assistant City Manager for the city and according to some FBI reports, he took over, or according to other sources he tried to take over the garbage business by buying off the top administration. With the help of Paul Dorfman, Jimmy Hoffa, the Teamster Union and with the financial backing of Bendal Kettleman, part owner of the El Rancho Casino, Roselli attacked the already established hauling firms through a firm which was on the downfall.

Back in Chicago, Daddono, Fratto, the Prannos and LaPorte formed a waste hauling company which was known as the West Suburban Scavenger Service located at 2945 5th Avenue. In reality the company was formed with a very small investment but largely started to steal scavenger stops from other scavenger firms which belonged to the Scavenger Association which in turn was controlled by the Dutch “Mafia”.

The main advantage was the Outfit’s control of numerous bars, stores and restaurants all around the city and so all of the owners, since most of them were Mob front men, agreed to make deals with the West Suburban Scavenger Service. The same deal was also for the owners who paid street tax to the Mob because if some of them refused, automatically they went out of business.

For example, on the North Side of the city, the Outfit owned a huge number of legal establishments and so the scavenger business became very lucrative in that area and their guy over there was Rudy Fratto. In a record time Fratto cornered the garbage removal service of more than 250 taverns and clip joints thus receiving the nickname “The Garbage King of Rush Street”. He worked as a salesman for the West Suburban Scavenger Service and quickly received glory for his lucrative scheme.

Fratto’s daughter was wife of the son of Daddono, William Jr. and this was the main reason for bringing him into the scheme and also turning over some of the accounts and ownership of the firm. So on the company’s records Daddono Jr.’s name always came up but on his business card he had the “Jr.” deleted from his name because the name “William Daddono” meant a “great deal” at the time.

The Outfit’s General Foreman at the company was Isadore Scramuzzo and Fratto’s connection to Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters was a 300 pound union strong-arm known as Robert Baker. Usually when Hoffa was in town, Fratto and Baker acted as his bodyguards.

Chicago Heights boss Frankie LaPorte took care of the many scavenger stops all around the southern suburbs with the help of his cousin Joe LaPorte, while Rocco Pranno's older brother Albert controlled all of the stops around the Melrose Park, Stone Park and Northlake areas. In fact if it wasn’t for LaPorte and Pranno, the West Suburban company would’ve been a family enterprise for the Fratto-Daddono clans.

Aside from the West Suburban Scavenger Service, the Outfit controlled another hauling company known as the Standard Disposal and Metal Company located at 1216 South Sangamon Street. This firm was mainly dominated by the boss himself Sam Giancana, together with Gus Alex and Lenny Patrick.

The fearsome Patrick was deep in the garbage collection business and once he reportedly stated “This wrap smells to me.” Same as Rudy Fratto, Patrick was also employed as a salesman but this time for the Standard Disposal Company and his executive sales director was another ex-convict, bomber, gambler and suspected murderer David Kaminski.

Story goes that what Fratto’s, or should I say, Daddono’s company didn’t grab it was quickly picked up by the Standard Disposal team. Patrick’s job was to call for his “friends” at the markets and offered his scavenger services for a lesser price and they all took the offer because everybody knew about Patrick’s dark reputation. Because of the lesser prices, a price war among garbage hauling firms in the Chicago area has created a windfall for many restaurant, cafe, hotel, real estate, and other operators.

For the first time in years, many clients of private scavengers have been receiving unprecedented rate reductions. According to some investigative reports, many restaurant owners said that their scavenger volunteered to cut its price by 20 per cent and offered a three year contract.

So many members of the Dutch Association were forced to haul for much less than the real cost in order to compete with the Outfit-backed firms. In fact, the two Outfit-connected firms declared war to the Dutch Scavenger Association, which in the media became known as the “Garbage War”.

In just three months, the Outfit managed to grab more than 500 stops out of the hands of the Scavenger Association by sending their enforcers to customers of the Association, who simply informed them that the new company would take over their garbage pickups.

According to some sources, they usually dropped the name of some local Outfit member and they got the stops which the Association previously owned for years. Obviously the people feared the Mob and the whole situation resulted with an investigation by special police intelligence units.

The Dutch Association proved to be quite incapable in defending its customers when the Outfit decided to muscle in on the multi-million dollar garbage business but the Dutch group had another "ace up its sleeve", and that was their control over the dumping grounds. On top of that, both of the Outfit’s garbage companies were non-Association members which meant that they were restricted from dumping their garbage on dumps which were controlled by that same Association and that is why, many drivers who worked for the Outfit were forced to dump the garbage illegally.

For example, one of Giancana's and Daddono's old associates Charles English was also involved in the garbage business together with another Outfit member known as Rocco DeStefano, through a firm known as the Calumet Land Reclamation Company located at 9558 Colfax Avenue. the company was quite catastrophic because it involved ripping huge additional profits by directing all of their scavenger trucks to dump the garbage illegally and so tons of all kinds of waste has been buried on district property, usually under a layer of dirt and clay.

Many drivers or helpers for the West Suburban and Standard Disposal were fired or they personally quit their jobs because they objected to dumping waste in illegal zones because they had been jailed for it before. So the Outfit-owned companies threatened to sue the dump operators for the obvious refusal to accept business from anyone who was not an association member and after that the Standard Disposal and Metal Company made a temporary injunction against the Association, eight dump yards, and other defendants in a $1,500,000 anti-trust suit.

Standard claimed that there has been a conspiracy to suppress competition and so the dump operators were forced to allow Standard to dump only 10 loads a day of "backed up" garbage, but after awhile they withdrew their lawsuit.

The situation became even more complicated in 1962, when the two Outfit-owned hauling firms stepped on each other’s toes. Story goes that Daddono's West Suburban started to muscle in on some of the scavenger stops which were already under the control of Giancana's Standard Disposal.

During those days the newspaper men and investigators created a “myth” in which Daddono allegedly tried to takeover the boss position from Giancana. Well I personally believe that the conflict was quite real but it occurred under different circumstances and that is why there were no dead bodies left on the streets. Both Giancana and Daddono were under tremendous goverment pressure at the time, and so I personally believe that they did not have the pleasure, time nor space to go into a conflict.

So instead, Gancana decided to make a smart move and sent his best negotiator Gus Alex, who in turn gave irrevocable and threatening instruction, not to Daddono, but to Rudy Fratto. Alex allegedly told Fratto to inform Daddono that the top administration has decided to close down all of their garbage hauling operations for at least some time, until the heat went down.

So Daddono sold his company for a much higher price to one Dick Evenhouse who was a member of the Dutch Scavenger Association. In fact, the Outfit failed mainly because of their internal conflicts that caught the attention of the government, and in a indirect way, the government somehow helped the Dutch “Mafia” in removing every obstacle, such as the Mob, from their further achievements in the garbage industry.

[PolackTony]

By the late 1950’s, 90% of the hauling firms in Chicago were controlled by the Dutch population which became know as the “Dutch Mafia”. They were not some bloodthirsty criminal organization but the thing was that they kept the business among their own people. Some sources say that back in the old days the Dutchmen had the garbage business in their blood and they controlled it since the late 1920’s.

During that period the Dutch scavengers formed their own association to regulate the whole business, which was known as the West Side Garbage Association. The members decided not to compete with each other and traded accounts to concentrate their routes for greater efficiency. Known Dutch families such as the Huizengas or the Van Tholens controlled 90% of the garbage business in Chicago and allegedly profited with over 20 million dollars a year.

But during that time, one of the first gangs which tried to invade their business was the so-called Capone gang. They faced many difficulties with union goons, mobsters, police harassment, and in later years, environmental regulations. The Dutch scavengers had problems with one corrupt teamster local known as the Excavators’ Union, which was headed by Daniel Tognotti or Tagnetti, a member of the Capone gang. By defying Tognotti’s union, the Dutch took it rough.

One day, one Dutchman saw his barn burning down to ashes, along with his horse and wagon. The “Caponites” also pulled many people out of their cars and kicked them right there on the street, in broad day light. But one night, reports of a shooting at Union hall, 220 South Ashland Avenue, brought five detective bureau squads to the meeting of business agents of various unions.

The entrance was first denied to the two motorcycle policemen from the Warren avenue station with the threat "break down the door and we’ll shoot your heads off." When the cops managed to enter the hall, they found no evidence of any shooting and explanation was made that an alleged fist fight had occurred between two members. But the police later learned, through an anonymous telephone call, that Tognotti had been shot in the fight, and was taken away immediately afterward and later died.

So more than 20 years later, Sam Giancana’s administration wasn’t much respectful one either, and that is why they furiously took the first step in taking over the garbage disposal business in their city. By this period few of the Outfit’s “best guys” in the garbage business were Willie Daddono and his lieutenant Rudy Fratto, followed by John Roselli, Albert and Rocco Pranno and Frank LaPorte.

For example in 1958, since Roselli was one of the main guys for the Outfit in Las Vegas, Nevada, he became Assistant City Manager for the city and according to some FBI reports, he took over, or according to other sources he tried to take over the garbage business by buying off the top administration. With the help of Paul Dorfman, Jimmy Hoffa, the Teamster Union and with the financial backing of Bendal Kettleman, part owner of the El Rancho Casino, Roselli attacked the already established hauling firms through a firm which was on the downfall.

Back in Chicago, Daddono, Fratto, the Prannos and LaPorte formed a waste hauling company which was known as the West Suburban Scavenger Service located at 2945 5th Avenue. In reality the company was formed with a very small investment but largely started to steal scavenger stops from other scavenger firms which belonged to the Scavenger Association which in turn was controlled by the Dutch “Mafia”.

The main advantage was the Outfit’s control of numerous bars, stores and restaurants all around the city and so all of the owners, since most of them were Mob front men, agreed to make deals with the West Suburban Scavenger Service. The same deal was also for the owners who paid street tax to the Mob because if some of them refused, automatically they went out of business.

For example, on the North Side of the city, the Outfit owned a huge number of legal establishments and so the scavenger business became very lucrative in that area and their guy over there was Rudy Fratto. In a record time Fratto cornered the garbage removal service of more than 250 taverns and clip joints thus receiving the nickname “The Garbage King of Rush Street”. He worked as a salesman for the West Suburban Scavenger Service and quickly received glory for his lucrative scheme.

Fratto’s daughter was wife of the son of Daddono, William Jr. and this was the main reason for bringing him into the scheme and also turning over some of the accounts and ownership of the firm. So on the company’s records Daddono Jr.’s name always came up but on his business card he had the “Jr.” deleted from his name because the name “William Daddono” meant a “great deal” at the time.

The Outfit’s General Foreman at the company was Isadore Scramuzzo and Fratto’s connection to Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters was a 300 pound union strong-arm known as Robert Baker. Usually when Hoffa was in town, Fratto and Baker acted as his bodyguards.

Chicago Heights boss Frankie LaPorte took care of the many scavenger stops all around the southern suburbs with the help of his cousin Joe LaPorte, while Rocco Pranno's older brother Albert controlled all of the stops around the Melrose Park, Stone Park and Northlake areas. In fact if it wasn’t for LaPorte and Pranno, the West Suburban company would’ve been a family enterprise for the Fratto-Daddono clans.

Aside from the West Suburban Scavenger Service, the Outfit controlled another hauling company known as the Standard Disposal and Metal Company located at 1216 South Sangamon Street. This firm was mainly dominated by the boss himself Sam Giancana, together with Gus Alex and Lenny Patrick.

The fearsome Patrick was deep in the garbage collection business and once he reportedly stated “This wrap smells to me.” Same as Rudy Fratto, Patrick was also employed as a salesman but this time for the Standard Disposal Company and his executive sales director was another ex-convict, bomber, gambler and suspected murderer David Kaminski.

Story goes that what Fratto’s, or should I say, Daddono’s company didn’t grab it was quickly picked up by the Standard Disposal team. Patrick’s job was to call for his “friends” at the markets and offered his scavenger services for a lesser price and they all took the offer because everybody knew about Patrick’s dark reputation. Because of the lesser prices, a price war among garbage hauling firms in the Chicago area has created a windfall for many restaurant, cafe, hotel, real estate, and other operators.

For the first time in years, many clients of private scavengers have been receiving unprecedented rate reductions. According to some investigative reports, many restaurant owners said that their scavenger volunteered to cut its price by 20 per cent and offered a three year contract.

So many members of the Dutch Association were forced to haul for much less than the real cost in order to compete with the Outfit-backed firms. In fact, the two Outfit-connected firms declared war to the Dutch Scavenger Association, which in the media became known as the “Garbage War”.

In just three months, the Outfit managed to grab more than 500 stops out of the hands of the Scavenger Association by sending their enforcers to customers of the Association, who simply informed them that the new company would take over their garbage pickups.

According to some sources, they usually dropped the name of some local Outfit member and they got the stops which the Association previously owned for years. Obviously the people feared the Mob and the whole situation resulted with an investigation by special police intelligence units.

The Dutch Association proved to be quite incapable in defending its customers when the Outfit decided to muscle in on the multi-million dollar garbage business but the Dutch group had another "ace up its sleeve", and that was their control over the dumping grounds. On top of that, both of the Outfit’s garbage companies were non-Association members which meant that they were restricted from dumping their garbage on dumps which were controlled by that same Association and that is why, many drivers who worked for the Outfit were forced to dump the garbage illegally.

For example, one of Giancana's and Daddono's old associates Charles English was also involved in the garbage business together with another Outfit member known as Rocco DeStefano, through a firm known as the Calumet Land Reclamation Company located at 9558 Colfax Avenue. the company was quite catastrophic because it involved ripping huge additional profits by directing all of their scavenger trucks to dump the garbage illegally and so tons of all kinds of waste has been buried on district property, usually under a layer of dirt and clay.

Many drivers or helpers for the West Suburban and Standard Disposal were fired or they personally quit their jobs because they objected to dumping waste in illegal zones because they had been jailed for it before. So the Outfit-owned companies threatened to sue the dump operators for the obvious refusal to accept business from anyone who was not an association member and after that the Standard Disposal and Metal Company made a temporary injunction against the Association, eight dump yards, and other defendants in a $1,500,000 anti-trust suit.

Standard claimed that there has been a conspiracy to suppress competition and so the dump operators were forced to allow Standard to dump only 10 loads a day of "backed up" garbage, but after awhile they withdrew their lawsuit.

The situation became even more complicated in 1962, when the two Outfit-owned hauling firms stepped on each other’s toes. Story goes that Daddono's West Suburban started to muscle in on some of the scavenger stops which were already under the control of Giancana's Standard Disposal.

During those days the newspaper men and investigators created a “myth” in which Daddono allegedly tried to takeover the boss position from Giancana. Well I personally believe that the conflict was quite real but it occurred under different circumstances and that is why there were no dead bodies left on the streets. Both Giancana and Daddono were under tremendous goverment pressure at the time, and so I personally believe that they did not have the pleasure, time nor space to go into a conflict.

So instead, Gancana decided to make a smart move and sent his best negotiator Gus Alex, who in turn gave irrevocable and threatening instruction, not to Daddono, but to Rudy Fratto. Alex allegedly told Fratto to inform Daddono that the top administration has decided to close down all of their garbage hauling operations for at least some time, until the heat went down.

So Daddono sold his company for a much higher price to one Dick Evenhouse who was a member of the Dutch Scavenger Association. In fact, the Outfit failed mainly because of their internal conflicts that caught the attention of the government, and in a indirect way, the government somehow helped the Dutch “Mafia” in removing every obstacle, such as the Mob, from their further achievements in the garbage industry.

Wow, this is a really great and useful summary of a topic little covered elsewhere. Thanks yet again!

As a side note, I'm not aware that I've ever actually met a Dutch Chicagoan in my life lol. Had no idea there were enough to hold sway over the waste hauling industry like that. The ethnic division of labor stuff from way back is always interesting, another example being the dominance from the early 20th century of street sweeping in Chicago by Italians (the story being that the contadini preferred to work outside rather than cooped up indoors).

[Villain]

Wow, this is a really great and useful summary of a topic little covered elsewhere. Thanks yet again!

As a side note, I'm not aware that I've ever actually met a Dutch Chicagoan in my life lol. Had no idea there were enough to hold sway over the waste hauling industry like that. The ethnic division of labor stuff from way back is always interesting, another example being the dominance from the early 20th century of street sweeping in Chicago by Italians (the story being that the contadini preferred to work outside rather than cooped up indoors).

You're welcome bud. Yes you are right about the ethnic labor division during the old days, and I think that Big Jim Colosimo started as a street sweeper.

[PolackTony]

Wow, this is a really great and useful summary of a topic little covered elsewhere. Thanks yet again!

As a side note, I'm not aware that I've ever actually met a Dutch Chicagoan in my life lol. Had no idea there were enough to hold sway over the waste hauling industry like that. The ethnic division of labor stuff from way back is always interesting, another example being the dominance from the early 20th century of street sweeping in Chicago by Italians (the story being that the contadini preferred to work outside rather than cooped up indoors).

You're welcome bud. Yes you are right about the ethnic labor division during the old days, and I think that Big Jim Colosimo started as a street sweeper.

I believe that you're right about Colosimo.