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� February 2, 1920- Chicago labor racketeer Maurice "Mossy" Enright is killed.
� May 11, 1920- Chicago gambling racketeer Jim Colosimo is gunned down outside his restaurant. The alleged killer was Al Capone.
� 1923- Al Capone establishes his headquarters at the Lexington Hotel at 22nd and Michigan Avenues in Chicago. He also gained control of the Chicago suburb of Cicero, Illinois as a safe base of his legal operations.
� September 17, 1923- George Meegan, a Chicago bootlegger allied with the Southside O'Donnell's, and Southside O'Donnell member George Bucher are killed by Frank McErlane.
� April 1, 1924- Frank Capone, brother of Al Capone, is killed by policemen during the fighting which broke out while leading around 200 gunmen into Cicero during the 1924 Chicago elections in support of Mafia-backed Republican politicians.
� November 10, 1924- North Side Gang leader Dion O'Banion is killed when three unidentified men enter his flower shop, across from Holy Name Cathedral, and shoot him several times. This begins a five-year gang war between the North Side Gang, under Hymie Weiss, and Al Capone's Chicago Outfit.
� January 12, 1925- North Side Gang members Hymie Weiss, George "Bugs" Moran, and Vincent "The Schemer" Drucci attempt to kill Al Capone at a Chicago South Side restaurant, firing at Capone's car and injuring chauffeur Sylvester Barton, but leaving Capone unharmed.
� January 24, 1925- Weiss, Moran, Drucci, and Frank "Tight Lips" Gusenberg ambush Chicago Outfit leader Johnny Torrio as he returns from shopping with his wife, shooting him several times, wounding him and his chauffeur Robert Barton. As Moran is about to kill the wounded Torrio the gun misfires and is forced to flee as the police arrive on the scene. Soon after this attack Torrio retires to Italy, and was succeeded by his lieutenant Al Capone.
� February 9, 1925- Johnny Torrio is sentenced by Judge Adam Cliffe to 9 months in the Lake County Jail in Waukegan. The jail is chosen by Torrio's lawyers as a facility necessary for Torrio to receive proper medical treatment however it was actually chosen for Torrio's protection as the prison warden Sheriff Edwin Ahlstrom was in the pay of Torrio's organization. Torrio was later escorted by Capone out of the city after his release.
� June 13, 1925- "Bloody" Angelo Genna is killed, possibly by members of the North Side Gang or the Chicago Outfit.
� November 13, 1925- Samuzzo "Samoots" Amatuna, an ally of the Genna Family, is gunned down outside a Chicago West Side barber shop by the North Side Gang.
� 1926- Al Capone and his crew try to kill Myles O'Donnell and William "Klondike" O'Donnell, leaders of the Westside O'Donnell Mob, in Cicero. |
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