Johnny Torrio
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John Donato Torrio was an Italian-born mobster who helped build the Chicago Outfit in the 1920s later inherited by his protégé Al Capone. Torrio proposed a National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s and la
Torrio in 1939
Torrio in 1903
Torrio following his 1936 arrest for tax evasion
Big Jim Colosimo
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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
Johnny Torrio
…Frankie Yale, eventually hired Capone to bartend at the Harvard Inn, a bar in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn. By 1909, Torrio moved to Chicago. "Big Jim" Colosimo, who had become head of a burgeoning vice empire in Chicago is reputed to have invited him to the city to help him deal with Black Hand extortionists…
James "Big Jim" Colosimo
Al Capone mugshot
Colosimo mausoleum at Oak Woods Cemetery