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United Air Lines Flight 553 was a scheduled flight from Washington National Airport to Omaha, Nebraska, via Chicago Midway International Airport. On December 8, 1972, the Boeing 737-222 serving the flight, City of Lincoln, registration N9031U, crashed during an aborted landing and go around while approaching Midway Airport. The plane crashed into a residential neighborhood, destroying five houses; there was an intense ground fire. 43 of the 61 aboard the aircraft and two on the ground were killed. Among the passengers killed were Illinois congressman George W. Collins, CBS News correspondent Michele Clark and Dorothy Hunt, the wife of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt. This crash was the first fatal accident involving a Boeing 737, which had entered airline service nearly five years earlier in February 1968.

Joseph Patrick Lombardo (Born Giuseppe Lombardi) January 1st, 1929 – October 19, 2019 Also known as "Joey the Clown" he was an American mobster and a high-ranking member of the Chicago Outfit crime organization. He was alleged to be the Consigliere of the Outfit. Lombardo was born on January 1, 1929, in Chicago, one of 11 children to Italian immigrants from Bari, Mike Lombardi, a butcher, and Carmela Lombardi. Lombardo, a high school dropout, at some point changed the final letter of his last name. He joined the Outfit in the 1950s.

Red Wemette author of "Nobody Cares And What I Did About It" was an undercover operative for the FBI that operated within the Chicago Outfit for over a decade. He also helped bring to justice the man responsible for the murder of three young boys and sheds some light on the abduction and slaying of candy heiress Helen Vorhees Brach.

Journalists go undercover to expose underworld figures and corrupt city officials in Chicago

Some of the hangouts and hit sites used by the Chicago Outfit

The site where Teamsters pension fund supervisor Allen Dorfman was gunned down.

A brief overview of the powerful Chicago Outfit member Jackie Cerone

One of the Chicago Outfit's most feared hitmen.

This was a popular mob associate hangout in Chicago.

David Bowman is the last living associate of the Chicago Outfit crew in Las Vegas known as "The Hole In The Wall Gang" made famous in the movie Casino.

Some of the locations and people in Chicago during the filming of Thief with James Caan. 1981

A crazed gunman goes on a wild rampage through a popular Chicago car dealership.

Top left to right: Jackie Cerone, Louie Eboli, Gerald Scarpelli Middle Left to right: Joseph Aiuppa, Jasper Campise, Anthony Accardo Bottom left to right: Frank Schweihs, Joey Lombardo, Tony Spilotro

"Joey Aiuppa was so mean he'd okay a ham sandwich to get whacked!"

One of the "Hole In The Wall Gang" in Vegas and the muscle for Frank Cullotta and Tony Spilotro, Larry Neumann weas a stone cold killer.

The story behind the "vice" scene in the movie Casino.

According to FBI agent Bill Roemer he had a couple of the best inside informants, "Sporting Goods" and "Romano" one of which was a "made" member.

Flukey Stokes and his son William "Willie The Wimp" Stokes were the leaders of one of Chicago's most influential drug gangs.

One of the most sadistic and brutal members of the Chicago Outfit.

The various expressions used by Outfit members and Chicagoans.

A brief history of Lefty Rosenthals rise and fall with the Chicago Outfit

A brief overview of the life and sad demise of Tony "The Ant" Spilotro and his younger brother Michael.

Who are the characters in the movie Casino based on in real life?

Cheesy commercial from Chicago in the 1980's

A tribute on the day Frank Cullotta passed away. The last Vegas mobster.