Dean O'Banion
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Charles Dean O'Banion was an American mobster who was the main rival of Johnny Torrio and Al Capone during the brutal Chicago bootlegging wars of the 1920s. The newspapers of his day made him better k
O'Banion in 1921
O'Banion's grave at Mount Carmel Cemetery
Hymie Weiss
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Earl J. "Hymie" Weiss, was a Polish-American mob boss who became a leader of the Prohibition-era North Side Gang and a bitter rival of Al Capone. He was known as "the only man Al Capone feared".
Dean O'Banion
…but few people had enough nerve to call him that. The shorter leg was the result of a childhood streetcar accident in 1904. O'Banion and his friends (Earl "Hymie" Weiss, Vincent "The Schemer" Drucci, and George "Bugs" Moran) joined the Market Street Gang, which specialized in theft and robbery for Chicago's black market…
1929 photo of Weiss from the Chicago Tribune
Weiss mausoleum at Mount Carmel Cemetery