The Mystery of Chicago's "Zips": Potential links to Italian OC?
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Re: The Mystery of Chicago's "Zips": Potential links to Italian OC?
Great post tony. I know of one of my connected sidernese friend has family in Schenectady that come to visit Toronto. Probably the same Albany ndrine they are talking about here
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Re: The Mystery of Chicago's "Zips": Potential links to Italian OC?
Yeah, Central NY, Chicago, CT, obviously NYC/LI all make sense as there was a lot of “second wave” Calabrese immigration to all these places (and FL by then had emerged as a major secondary area of settlement). The one that seems surprising at first is Detroit, as the Italian community there is very strongly Sicilian, but I think that the proximity to Windsor is key here.
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Re: The Mystery of Chicago's "Zips": Potential links to Italian OC?
Central NY had a strong organized Calabresi presence early in the 20th century too. The Calabrian members of the Utica decina started out around this element. Gioacchino "Jack" Parisi of the Gambino / Philly Families also first arrived to that area and may have had existing links to Calabrian organized crime when he arrived in the US.