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- OF all the crimes of Chicago boozedom the slaying of “Little Hymie” Weiss was at once the boldest and the most mysterious until the ghastly St. Valentine’s day of 1929, when boozedom set seven of Hymie’s successors against a wall and machine-gunned them to death á la Mex.
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Weiss retaliated against Capone on September 20, 1926. A procession of ten vehicles unloaded gunfire into Capone's Hawthorne Hotel, on 22nd St. in Cicero. Over 1000 rounds were fired.
Oct 9, 2020 · Two gunmen hiding in nearby rooming house opened fire with a sub-machine gun and shotgun at Weiss, and his 3 associates. Weiss was fatally hit and began to fall onto the sidewalk, as he did a confused bodyguard, Sam Pellar, drew his .38 and fired off shots in the general direction of shooters.
- Gabe Paoletti
- Joe Masseria, 1931. In 1930, a Sicilian faction led by Salvatore Maranzano waged war against a Sicilian-American group led by Joe Masseria for control of Mafia activity in the United States.
- Albert Anastasia, 1957. Detectives take notes and examine the barbershop of New York's Park Sheraton Hotel, where the body of Murder Inc.' s Albert Anastasia lies, partially covered, on the floor after his murder by unknown gunmen.
- The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, 1929. On February 14, 1929, seven members of the North Side Gang were trapped in a garage, lined up against the wall, and shot to death by members of Al Capone's rival gang, which was at war with the Irish North Siders for control of Chicago.
- Carmine Galante, 1979. The body of Carmine "Lilo" Galante (top right), boss of the Bonanno crime family, lies outside of Joe & Mary's Italian-American Restaurant in Brooklyn.
Mar 17, 2003 · On Weiss’ body was found a list of all the men called for jury service in the trial of Joe Saltis, a Chicago beer runner, gunman, and co-criminal of Weiss, who was charged with killing “Mitters” Foley, another gangster of boozedom.
- Dean O’Banion. Dean O’Banion was born in Illinois on July 8, 1892, and is considered as the first great gangster of Chicago’s North Side. Although the newspapers of the era spelled his first name as ‘Dion,’ he always used ‘Dean.’
- Angelo Genna. ‘Bloody Angelo’ Genna was born in Sicily, Italy on February 3, 1898, and moved to Chicago in 1914 to join brothers. There was a total of six brothers involved in the Genna Crime Family, but Angelo was the most violent.
- Hymie Weiss. Born as Henry Wojciechowski in Poland in 1898, Weiss rose to prominence as the leader of a North Side Gang in Chicago during the prohibition era.
- Jack McGurn. McGurn received the ‘Machine Gun’ designation before George Kelly but his real name was Vincenzo Gibaldi, and he was born in Sicily in 1902.
Oct 11, 2018 · One of the men killed is Earl “Hymie” Weiss, a member of the North Side Gang that controlled bootlegging and other illegal activity on the north side of the city, a rival to a gang controlled by Al Capone.
Jun 13, 2017 · They murdered Weiss in a precise machine-gun hit the afternoon of October 11, 1926, as he crossed in front of the church toward Schofield’s, where his boss had been cooled 11 months earlier.
