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 ... allegedly tied to the Outfit, Chicago's organized ...

Jr. 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.

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 ... allegedly tied the Outfit, Chicago's organized ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar nominee John Travolta (Pulp Fiction), Emmy and Tony winner ... will star as Anthony Accardo, a powerful and calculating head of the Chicago Outfit, considered one of ...

Loy Cannon, played by Chris Rock, boss of an African American crime family, trades his youngest son Satchel (Rodney Jones), with the youngest son of Mafia ... future Outfit boss Tony Accardo ...

He rose to power within the American Mafia ... in the world continues with Tony Accardo, nicknamed “Joe Batters,” he was a prominent figure in the Chicago Outfit, known for his leadership ...

And at age 20, Accardo was officially initiated into the Chicago Outfit. Both a violent and obedient ... Accardo the “genuine godfather.” Though Tony Accardo technically “retired” from being a Mafia ...

But during a sit-down with Metro, the ‘Mafia Prince’ revealed ... at that time’, as well as Tony ‘Joe Batters’ Accardo, who headed the ‘Chicago Outfit’, and Tampa boss Santo ...

Calabrese was infamous as a top assassin for the Mafia in Chicago. Among the 14 murders in which Calabrese told federal prosecutors he took part were those of brothers Tony "the Ant" and Mike ...