As noted above, Giuseppe "Diamond Joe" Esposito's wife was Carmela Concetta Marchese, born in 1895 in Chicago to Francesco Marchese and Angelina Cesario of San Fili, Cosenza, Calabria (San Fili borders towns like Marano Principato and Rende, important in both Chicago and Kenosha). Their eldest son, born in 1915 in Chicago, was Joseph Esposito, aka "Joe Esty", who was a close associate of Giancana and Frank Bompensiero ("Esty", as has been discussed previously, relocated from Chicago to the San Diego/Tijuana area, where he was alleged to have been one of Giancana's primary liaisons for connections in Mexico after Giancana fled the US in 1966).PolackTony wrote: ↑Tue Jan 17, 2023 6:27 pm In 1921, the Tribune noted that Tony Mops was the secretary of Chicago member and Taylor St bigshot Diamond Joe Esposito; later articles would describe Mops as Esposito's "lieutenant", as well as Esposito's brother-in-law, though I wasn't able to verify a marriage connection between their families myself. Esposito was 20 years Mops's senior and his wife, Carmella Marchese, was born in Chicago to parents from San Fili, Cosenza (her mother was a Cesario, and thus it's possible that she was related to later Chicago member Sam Cesario, whose parents were also Cosentini).
Now, Angelina Cesario's father was Antonio Cesario, who died in Chicago in 1930. He had a paternal first cousin, Giovanni Cesario, who also immigrated to Chicago; both families lived in the Taylor St Patch. Giovanni was married to Anna Concetta Asta, and one of their sons was Francesco Cesario, who died in Chicago in 1926. Francesco was married to Maria Francesca Pasarelli, also of San Fili; they had a large family, and one of their kids, born in 1903 in Chicago, was Francis William Cesario, who later went by the name "Frank Chesrow". Chesrow, as we can see, was a relative of Diamond Joe by marriage.
As an adult, Chesrow was noted as personally close to Tony Accardo; indeed, an informant told the FBI that Frank Chesrow baptized one of Accardo's kids (not sure which one). Apart from being Accardo's cumpà, Chesrow was also one of the most influential Italians in Chicago. He was a pharmacist, with a degree from Valparaiso University and a chain of local drugstores in Chicago. One of his brothers, Eugene Chesrow, Sr, was a physician and longtime administrator of Oak Forest Memorial Hospital in the suburbs (son Eugene Chesrow, Jr, was later a noted conservationist in Chicago). Frank Chesrow served in the Army Medical Corps in Italy in WW2, where he dealt with sanitation issues and a typhoid outbreak, earning a Bronze Star, and was then placed with the general staff of the Allied Forces and involved in the reorganization and training of the Italian Army. Chesrow left the Army in 1946 with the rank of Colonel and 19 decorations, returning to Chicago where he soon dove into politics. In 1948, he was elected as a Trustee of the Chicago Sanitary District (later renamed the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago) on the Democratic ticket, and in the 1950s and 1960s Chesrow served as the President and Chairman of the Board of the Sanitary District. While to those not familiar with Chicago politics, this may not seem like a big deal, it was, in fact, one of the most politically influential positions in the state of Illinois (a bloody gang war in the 1990s in my neighborhood was supposedly fueled by rival factions who were "getting out the vote" for rival candidates for the Water Reclamation District, to show how tense the stakes were). The Sanitary District controlled lots of jobs, and this gave the head of the Sanitary District one of the largest patronage armies, along with the City of Chicago and Cook County governments, in IL. This meant 'a lot of clout, so it's unsurprising that the FBI had wiretaps of Chesrow meeting with the outfit's 1st Ward political machine, including Pat Marcy, in the '60s to discuss problems in the Sanitary District around potential scandals and electoral opposition. The FBI during this time also received reports that Mayor Richard J Daley (aka "Hizzoner", aka "Old Man Daley") was staying in a vacation home owned by Chesrow during summer visits to Michigan. Later, from 1970 through 1986, Frank Chesrow was a Cook County Commissioner until he retired from politics.
Chesrow was also highly active for many decades Chicago's robust Italian social and charitable institutions community, along with his brothers Eugene sr and Albert Chesrow. The FBI was told in the 1960s that Frank Chesrow was a leader in the "Sicilian Fraternal Society", presumably the IANU ("Unione Siciliana"), though I haven't been able to verify exactly what position Chesrow had in the organization. For many years, Chesrow was involved in numerous social and charitable events and institutions in the Italian community and was one of its most respected figures.
As noted above, Frank Chesrow was recorded meeting with Pat Marcy, and the names of Frank and his brother Eugene "Doc" Chesrow were picked up a number of times on FBI wiretaps of the outfit's 1st Ward operation. It was also reported that Chicago member John D'Arco was a business partner of Chesrow's in real estate and drug stores. In 1953, Eugene Chesrow flew to LA with then-boss Tony Accardo and a Skokie-based automobile dealer named Mike Mancuso (later notes in FBI documents state that Mancuso was actually Accardo and that Chesrow was an alias for Giancana, but that doesn't fit how the event was discussed in the LA press at the time). The three were met in LA by Frank Ferraro and captain Tony Pinelli, at which point they were detained and questioned by the local police. In the early 1960s, the FBI was attempting to ascertain whether the Chesrows were uncles of Ferraro, as they had been told by a source. This was not true, as the Chesrows were Calabrese and Ferraro Agrigento. I don't see any intermarriages in their families either, but we can at least presume that there were personal connections.
