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However, many other gangs were active in Chicago at this time, and Torrio was wary of being drawn into gang wars and tried to negotiate agreements over territory between rival crime groups. In 1920, Torrio built an agreement between most of Chicago's bootlegging gangs into a city-wide cartel. [12]
Johnny Torrio, Italian-born American gangster who was the rackets boss in Brooklyn before becoming a top crime boss in Chicago during the Prohibition era. Mentor of Al Capone and rival of Dion O’Bannion, Bugs Moran, and Hymie Weiss, Torrio was one of the founders of modern organized crime in America.
Soon he returned to serve as a Consigliore to Capone’s Outfit and watched as his understudy became the most notorious gangster of all time. Johnny Torrio died April 16, 1957 from a heart attack while in New York.
Died: January 25, 1947, Palm Island, Florida. Nicknames: Scarface, Snorky, the Big Guy, Big Al. Associations: Johnny Torrio, Jim Colosimo, Lucky Luciano, the Outfit, Bugs Moran. Alphonse Capone may be the most celebrated, or infamous, mobster in American history.
Johnny Torrio was the street gang leader and among the other members was Lucky Luciano, who would later attain his own notoriety. About 1920, at Torrio’s invitation, Capone joined Torrio in...
At age 15, Capone began working for Johnny Torrio, one of the city’s most notorious Italian-American gang leaders, helping him in his many mob outfits including brothels and bars. Unlike...
Once his schooling career ended at age 14 after he hit his female teacher in the face, Capone began to associate with more serious, criminal organisations and leaders, such as the notorious gangster Johnny Torrio.
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