One-time Chicago mob heavyweight Michael (Big Mike) Spano is a free man. The 74-year old Spano, the former captain of the Outfit’s powerful Cicero crew, was released from a Windy City halfway house earlier this week, returning home to his west-suburban digs after over 12 years in federal prison. Big Mike was convicted in 2002
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The once heavily-publicized Playboy drug scandal peaked and then abruptly ended forty years ago this December, an anniversary men’s magazine magnate and American sex icon Hugh Hefner certainly won’t be celebrating along with his usual Christmas festivities in six months. Back in the early-to-mid 1970s, Hefner and his Playboy empire were the high-priority targets of
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Notoriously trigger-happy Chicago mob hit man and Cicero crew lieutenant Harry (the Hook) Aleman was a suspect in more than a dozen murders in a half-dozen years in the 1970s, imposing order on the Windy City streets with his violent antics on behalf of his uncle and Outfit power Joe Ferriola. Aleman, who was half Italian and half
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Chicago mobster Marshall (Johnny Shoes) Caifano, a protégé of revered Windy City Godfathers Paul (the Waiter) Ricca and Tony (the Big Tuna) Accardo, is best known as the Outfit’s west coast muscle from the 1940s until the 1970s. The diminutive and volatile Caifano was allegedly an accomplished killer – well-known for employing a shotgun and car bombs in his
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