WikiVisually
The entire wiki reimagined as a visual magazine with video discovery · Watch your interests come alive
WikiVisually
The entire wiki reimagined as a visual magazine with video discovery · Watch your interests come alive
Nature The World Movies USA Top Art Fine & Rare History Ivy & Inquiry
Big Jim Colosimo
Videos
Vincenzo Colosimo, known as James "Big Jim" Colosimo or as "Diamond Jim", was an Italian-American Mafia crime boss who emigrated from Calabria, Italy, in 1895 and built a criminal empire in Chicago ba
James "Big Jim" Colosimo
James "Big Jim" Colosimo
Al Capone mugshot
Al Capone mugshot
Colosimo mausoleum at Oak Woods Cemetery
Colosimo mausoleum at Oak Woods Cemetery
Frankie Yale
Videos
Francesco Ioele, known as Frankie Yale or Frankie Uale, was an American gangster based in Brooklyn and the second employer of Al Capone.
Big Jim Colosimo
…minutes after entering the restaurant by a gunman hiding in the cloak room. A bullet entered Colosimo's brain, behind his right ear. Contract killer Frankie Yale had allegedly traveled from New York to Chicago and personally killed longtime gang boss Colosimo at the behest of Torrio. Although suspected by Chicago…
Yale's 1912 mugshot
Yale's 1912 mugshot
Yale cultivated a populist public image as a philanthropic sporting event promoter. In a 1927 Brooklyn Daily Times profile, he promoted a charitable b
Yale cultivated a populist public image as a philanthropic sporting event promoter. In a 1927 Brooklyn Daily Times profile, he promoted a charitable boxing card to benefit the building fund of St. Rosalia's Church.