Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Vincenzo "Jim Emery" Amaratti (late 1920s - 1956) Allegiance. Chicago Outfit. Frank "Frankie" LaPorte (October 7, 1901 – October 30, 1972) was an Italian–American racketeer in the Chicago Outfit. [1] He was the Chicago Heights boss during the early 20th century. His closest associates in bootlegging included Ross Prio, Louis Campagna and ...
Charles Panici. Charles "Chuck" Panici (December 26, 1930 - December 20, 2017 ) was mayor of Chicago Heights, Illinois from 1975 to 1991. He was also head of the Bloom Township Republican Party from 1978 to 1992. He was born in 1930 in the "Hungry Hill" section of Chicago Heights, a south suburb, which was the home to mainly Italian immigrants ...
The Reporter. (newspaper) The Reporter is an American weekly community newspaper based in the Chicago suburb of Palos Heights, Illinois, and serves the Illinois communities of Oak Lawn, Evergreen Park, Worth, Chicago Ridge, Palos Hills and Hickory Hills. It is a Thursday newspaper delivered to subscribers via mail, but hits newsstands Wednesday.
CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. - A man was arrested this week after allegedly stabbing two teen boys, killing one of them, in Chicago Heights. Oronde Hardy, 50, has been charged with one count of first ...
Shooting. Deaths. Anthony Alvarez. On March 31, 2021, Anthony Alvarez, a 22-year-old Latino man, was shot and killed by a Chicago Police Department officer in the Portage Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side of Chicago. [2] Police body camera footage of Alvarez' death was released on April 28, showing Alvarez being shot in the back while ...
John Richard Drury (January 4, 1927 – November 25, 2007) was an American television news anchor from Chicago, Illinois.Drury is most known for serving as anchor on Chicago news broadcasts which included: WGN-TV from 1967 to 1970 and again from 1979 until 1984; WLS-TV from 1970 to 1979 and 1984 until his retirement in 2002.
Anthony John Spilotro (May 19, 1938 – June 14, 1986), nicknamed " Tony the Ant ", was an American mobster and high ranking member for the Chicago Outfit in Las Vegas during the 1970s and '80s. Spilotro managed the Outfit's illegal casino profits (the "skim") when four of the casinos, The Stardust, The Fremont, The Hacienda, and The Marina ...
Lois Jean Wille (/ w ɪ l iː /; née Kroeber; September 19, 1931 – July 23, 2019) was a Chicago-based journalist, editor, and author. She won her first of two Pulitzer Prizes in 1963 for a series on local government's failure to provide contraceptive information and services to low-income women.