As part of the same arrangement, Torrio had, in the spirit of peace and good will, and in exchange for armed support in the April election campaign, bestowed upon O'Banion a third share in the Hawthorne Smoke Shop proceeds and a cut in the Cicero beer trade.

They were disturbed by his idiotic bravado -- as, when his bodyguard, Yankee Schwartz, complained that he had been snubbed by Dave Miller, a prize-fight referee, chieftain of a Jewish gang and one of four brothers of tough reputation, who were Hirschey, a gambler-politician in loose beer-running league with Torrio and O'Banion, Frank, a policeman, and Max, the youngest.

But Torrio and Capone had graver cause to hate and distrust the Irishman.

For three years, since the liquor territorial conference, Torrio had, with his elastic patience, and because he knew that retaliation could cause only violent warfare and disaster to business, tolerated O'Banion's impudent double-crossing.

When, as a diplomatic gesture of amity and in payment for the loan of gunmen in the April election, Torrio had given O'Banion a slice of Cicero, the profits from that district had been $20,000 a month.

Torrio then learned O ' Banion had known about the raid all along, and it was a setup.

Capone had men guarding Torrio around the clock to make sure his beloved mentor was safe.

Throughout his reign as boss of the Chicago mob, Torrio had witnessed the massive increase in violence within organized crime.

In 1957, Torrio had a heart attack in Brooklyn while sitting in a barber's chair waiting for a haircut, dying several hours later in the hospital.

Torrio had attempted to peacefully divide bootlegging territories in Chicago among the different gangs, but O ' Banion resisted Torrio's efforts and provoked him on several occasions.

Mike Merlo had such complete control of the Organized Crime activities in Chicago, that upon his death in 1924, a war between north side gangs against Johnny Torrio ( with underling ) Al Capone at his side, instantly erupted.

In time, Colosimo and Torrio had a falling out over Torrio's insistence that they expand into rum-running, which Colosimo staunchly opposed.

* 1915 ( approximately )-After future Outfit powerbroker Johnny Torrio had made numerous trips to Chicago to do " mob chores " for his uncle through marriage, racketeer and " the biggest whoremaster in the City ," " Big Jim " Colosimo, Colosimo brought Torrio to Chicago permanently to run Colosimo's " houses ," the kind of work Torrio was already doing for himself in New York.

Torrio, excited that there would be no more problems between them, jumped at the idea and met O ' Banion at the warehouse.

Torrio brought his old Brooklyn lieutenant, Al Capone, to work there as a bartender and bouncer, providing Capone his introduction to Chicago.

Torrio's lawyers ostensibly choose this facility because Torrio can receive proper medical treatment there ; however, the real reason is for Torrio's protection as the Sheriff Edwin Ahlstrom is on Torrio's payroll.

Torrio was the first to establish his style of racketeering in Chicago, and recruited Capone to join him there.

Torrio tried to establish a partnership between himself and O ' Banion, and it worked for quite some time.

O ' Banion contacted Torrio and stated he wanted to retire from the business and sell some of his profits to Torrio.

Known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the attack effectively ended the five year gang war between Al Capone and the North Side Gang, which presumably started some years ago, when one-time North Side Gang leader Dion O ' Bannion swindled Outfit founder Johnny Torrio in a deal for a Prohibition brewery O ' Banion knew would be raided.

* 1884-Foundational Outfit leader Giovanni " Johnny " Torrio, nicknamed, " The Brain ," emigrated from Italy to New York City with his family, at age two.

He was also at this time, although not so interwoven in high politics and the rackets as Torrio and Capone, the most powerful and most dangerous mob leader in the Chicago underworld, the roughneck king.

That sort of braggadocio, for that sort of reason, in the view of Torrio and Capone, was a nonsense.

A further example of the incompatible difference in personalities was when two policemen held up a Torrio beer convoy on a West Side street and demanded $300 to let it through.

At last, even the controlled Torrio was unable to hold still, and he tentatively suggested that O'Banion should take a percentage in the Stickney brothels in return for one from his Cicero beer concession.

During this time, Capone was influenced by gangster Johnny Torrio, whom he came to regard as a mentor.

Capone was recruited for Chicago by Johnny Torrio, his Five Points Gang mentor.

Torrio took over the crime empire of James " Big Jim " Colosimo after he was murdered.

In May 1924, O ' Banion discovered that their Sieben Brewery was going to be raided by federal agents and sold his share to Torrio.

In 1925, Torrio was severely injured in an attack by the North Side Gang ; he turned over his business to Capone and returned to Italy.

Torrio was on vacation and left Al Capone in charge of the operations.

The next event was the setting up of Torrio in a police raid.

Born in southern Italy in 1882, Torrio emigrated to the United States with his mother after his father's death, happened when he was 2.

According to writers on organized crime, the Syndicate was born from an idea of Johnny " The Fox " Torrio and was founded or established at a May 1929 conference in Atlantic City, attended by leading underworld figures throughout the United States, including Torrio, Lucky Luciano, Al Capone, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, Joe Adonis, Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, Dutch Schultz, Abner " Longy " Zwillman, Louis " Lepke " Buchalter, Vince Mangano, gambler Frank Erickson, Frank Scalice and Albert " Mad Hatter " Anastasia .< ref > Carl Sifakis, < cite > The Mafia Encyclopedia: second edition </ cite >, ( Checkmark Books )</ ref > Others describe the Atlantic City meeting as a coordination and strategy conference for bootleggers .< ref > Dennis Eisenberg, Uri Dan, Eli Landau ,< cite > Meyer Lansky: Mogul of the Mob </ cite > Paddington Press, 1979 </ ref >

John " Papa Johnny " Torrio ( January 20, 1882 – April 16, 1957 ), also known as " The Fox " and as " The Immune ", was an Italian-American mobster who helped build the criminal empire known as the Chicago Outfit in the 1920s that was later inherited by his protégé, Al Capone.

In 1918, Yale contacted Torrio and requested that he should take Capone to Chicago as he was facing prison time.

At this point, Torrio realized that Colosimo was a serious impediment to the mob's potential fortunes.

On Saturday, January 24, 1925, in retaliation for the O ' Banion assassination, North Siders Hymie Weiss, Vincent Drucci, and Bugs Moran attacked Torrio as he was returning to his apartment at 7106 South Clyde Avenue from a shopping trip with Anna, his wife.

Torrio was struck in the jaw, lungs, groin, legs, and abdomen.

Torrio, having undergone emergency surgery, recovered slowly from the assassination attempt.

But in the meantime the beer-runner, unhappy with this solution, telephoned Torrio and returned to O'Banion with the message: `` Say, Dionie, I just been talking to Johnny, and he said to let them cops have the three hundred.

Born in 1899, Capone settled in Chicago to take over Johnny Torrio ’ s business dealing with outlawed liquor.

When Blanche cheats with mobster Al Torrio ( Anthony LaPaglia ), Ray leaves her and locates Hattie.

The lessons Torrio learned from Kelly stayed with him throughout his career ; Torrio eventually earned the moniker of " The Fox " due to his cunning and diplomatic ways.

The near-death experience frightened him badly, and combined with his prison sentence and the increasing difficulty in his work, it persuaded Torrio to retire while he was still alive.

In late 1925 Torrio moved away to Italy with his wife and mother, where he no longer dealt directly in mob business.

On January 27, Drucci and the two other North Siders ambushed Torrio while he was shopping with his wife.

Torrio brought together different parts of Chicago criminal activity, with a lasting effect on Chicago in general, and Chicago crime in particular.

* Chicago racketeer James " Big Jim " Colosimo brings his nephew Johnny Torrio, then with New York City's Five Points Gang, to eliminate the Black Hand from the city in response to their extortion demands.

* Johnny Torrio emigrates with his mother Maria Carlucci Torrio to the United States arriving in New York from Osara, Italy.

* Al Capone leaves New York, after an altercation with a member of the White Hand Gang, where he becomes a top lieutenant to Johnny Torrio.

* January 24-Weiss, Moran, Drucci, and Frank Gusenberg ambush Chicago Outfit leader Johnny Torrio as he returns from shopping with his wife, shooting him and his chauffeur, Robert Barton, several times.

A veteran of the " Circulation Wars ," he became a major figure in the city's steamfitters ' union during the early 1910s and was instrumental in the rise of Johnny Torrio, who provided Enright with invaluable political protection from Chicago's First Ward vice district Aldermen " Bathhouse " John Couglin and Michael " Hinky Dink " Kenna.

* Jan. 24, 1925-North Side Gang members again ambush Johnny Torrio as he returned from a Loop shopping trip with his wife.

In one incident Kelly, Torrio and 50 Five Pointers were in a gun battle with a similarly sized force of Eastman's gang.