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EVENTS

Chicago police arrest over 200 known Italian gangsters and known Black Hand members in a raid in Little Italy . However none are convicted as many of the notes of extortion threats cannot be traced to them.

Chicago racketeer Jim Colosimo brings his nephew Johnny Torrio , then with New York 's Five Points Gang , to eliminate the Black Hand from the city in response to their extortion demands. Within a month ten Black Hand extortionists had been killed.

Jim Cosmano , a major Chicago Black Hand leader, is severely wounded in an ambush by Johnny Torrio on a South Side bridge. Cosmano had previously demanded $10,000 threatening to destroy Colosimo's Cafe.

Gas House Gang member William Jones is imprisoned.

Eastman Gang leader Chick Tricker 's Park Row dive bar is closed by the New York Committee Of Fourteen . However he is able to move his operations to the vice distrct known as Satan's Circus purchasing Dan The Dude 's Stag Cafe on West 28th Street later renaming it the Cafe Maryland .

January 1 - March 26 , 1911 - Thirty-eight Black Hand victims are killed by Black Hand assassins, many by the unidentified assassin known only as Shotgun Man , between Oak Street and Milton Street in Chicago 's Little Italy .

March 15 - The Chicago Vice Commission , a civic organization to close the Brothel s and Panel House s of the Levee district, is organized.

ARTS AND LITERATURE

BIRTHS

Frank Abbandando , Murder Inc. hitman

Bruno Angelo , Philadelphia Mafia leader

Carmine Galante , Bonanno Crime Family Don

Carmine Lombardozzi , Gambino Crime Family Capo

Raffaele Quasarano , Detroit crime syndicate leader and associate of Frank Costello and Frank Coppola .

February 6 - Carlos Marcello (Calagero Menacore), New Orleans Mafia Don

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