After the assassination of Big Jim Colosimo, Torrio took his place in the Chicago Outfit.

Torrio took over the deceased Colosimo's vast criminal kingdom and started to venture into bootlegging.

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.

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

As the 1920s progressed, Torrio and Capone presided over the expansion of the Chicago Outfit as it raked in millions from gambling, prostitution, and now bootlegging.

Finally, tensions boiled over when O ' Banion cheated Torrio out of $ 500, 000 in a brewery acquisition deal and caused Torrio's arrest.

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

Severely injured in an assassination attempt by the North Side Mob in January 1925, the shaken Torrio returned to Italy and handed over control of the business to Capone.

Luciano, under the urging of former Chicago boss Johnny Torrio, set up the Commission to serve as the governing body for organized crime.

In May 1929, Costello, Luciano, Torrio, Lansky, and Atlantic City / South Jersey crime boss, Enoch " Nucky " Johnson hosted a crime convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

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 >

Torrio greatly admired Kelly, who knew much about organized crime culture ; Kelly convinced the younger man to dress conservatively, stop swearing, and set up a front as a legitimate entrepreneur.

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

As a teenager, Ioele was befriended by John Torrio, who ushered him into the Five Points Gang and groomed him for a life of crime.

Through his liquor smuggling activities, Nitti came to the attention of Chicago crime boss Johnny " Papa Johnny " Torrio and Torrio's newly-arrived soldier, Al Capone.

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

During the gang's later years, Kelly's second-in-command was John Torrio, who helped form a national crime syndicate in the United States.

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.

* 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.

** Al Capone joins the James Street Gang under Johnny Torrio, a satellite of the Five Points Gang.

Torrio immediately realized the immense profits bootlegging could bring and urged " Big Jim " Colosimo to enter the business, though Colosimo refused.

In May 1920, Frankie traveled to Chicago and personally killed longtime gang boss Big Jim Colosimo at the behest of Chicago Outfit friends Torrio and Capone.

Enright remained in control of the city's labor unions into the early months of Prohibition until his death on February 2, 1920, when he was gunned down near his South Side home ( most likely by rival Timothy " Big Tim " Murphy or Johnny Torrio and Al Capone.

* 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.

* 1919 ( late )-" The Brain " Torrio brought Chicago gangland's all-time iconic son Al Capone from New York City to Chicago, after he faced a couple of murder charges in the " Big Apple.

* Jim Cosmano, a major Chicago Black Hand leader, is severely wounded in an ambush by Johnny Torrio on a South Side bridge.

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

With the approval of Colosimo's allies, the Genna brothers and Aiello, Torrio invited Yale to come to Chicago and kill Colosimo.

Johnny Torrio, an enforcer Colosimo imported in 1909 from New York, would then seize control.

In 1919, Torrio and Colosimo opened a brothel at 2222 South Wabash called Four Deuces.

When prohibition went into effect in 1920, Torrio pushed for the gang to enter into bootlegging, but Colosimo refused.

After Colosimo returned to Chicago a week later, Torrio called him and let him know about a shipment arriving at his cafe.

Torrio reportedly brought in New York colleague, Frankie Yale, to murder Colosimo.

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.

Shortly after Torrio left for Chicago in 1909, Ioele " Americanized " his last name to Uale.

* July-Shortly after being brought to Chicago by his cousin John Torrio, New York gunman Roxie Vanilli is arrested for the murder of a Chicago police officer in Chicago's infamous vice district, The Levee.

* 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.

Soon after this attack, Torrio would retire to Italy, giving leadership of The Outfit to his lieutenant, Capone.

Soon after this attack, Torrio retired to Italy and was succeeded by his lieutenant, Al Capone.

Torrio was later escorted by Capone out of the city after his release.

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 had gone there to resolve some family problems his cousin's husband was having with the Black Hand and killed them.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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