CHICAGO - Four decades of ... made it plain they would not tolerate the theft of jewelry and other items from the basement vault at fellow boss Tony Accardo's house. "The Outfit wanted to find out ...

Giancana was the notorious boss of the Chicago Outfit for 1957 to 1966 — only nine years, but an eventful nine years. As ...

—JULY 23, 1983: Richard D. Ortiz and Arthur Morawski are killed in Cicero, Ill. Prosecutors allege Ortiz had committed a murder not authorized by the Outfit, but his friend Morawski was not an ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- It seemed like a good idea at the time. A gang of burglars decided in December 1977 to break into the home of Tony Accardo, one of ...

CHICAGO — It seemed like a good idea at the time. A gang of burglars decided in December 1977 to break into the home of Tony Accardo, one of the most powerful men in organized crime history, and ...

Tony Accardo, aka Anthony Accardo, was nicknamed JB or Joe Batters for his fondness of baseball bat beatings. Nobody outranked the 69-year-old Accardo in the Chicago Outfit back then.

Features Fargo Season 4: The Gang War Between The Chicago Outfit and The Policy Kings. The real life battle between the Mafia and the African American mob at the heart of Fargo didn’t play out ...

Tony Accardo's criminal career spanned eight decades as he went from street thug to succeeding Al Capone as boss of the Chicago Outfit — and only spent a single night in jail. Keystone/Hulton ...

Franzese named both gangsters on his list of top mobsters, saying each was ‘very powerful at that time’, as well as Tony ‘Joe Batters’ Accardo, who headed the ‘Chicago Outfit’, and ...

According to media reports, the Outfit was responsible for more than 1,100 gangland murders from the 1920s onward. But the most recent hit was the 2006 disappearance of Anthony “Little Tony ...