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Dean "Deanie" O'Banion (July 8, 1892 – November 10, 1924) was an Irish-American mobster who was the main rival of Johnny Torrio and Al Capone during the brut...
Dean O'Banion - Dean Charles O'Banion. Born July 8,1892, in Maroa, Illinois (150 miles South of Chicago). Dean grew up in a loving family that lived in an old house a block west of route 51 in the north end of town. He was a childish prankster in school who teased his classmates.
Dean O’Banion. Though the papers referred to him as Dion or Deanie, and his first name was Charles, those who knew what was good for them always called him “Dean”. John Torrio’s most ...
By 1920, he led a gang of burglars, safecrackers and robbers and was allegedly responsible for killing more than 25 people. When Proibition came in, O’Banion became a bootlegger and ruled the Northeast side of Chicago. His chief lieutenants were George “Bugs” Moran, Hymie Weiss, Louis Alterie, Vincent “Schemer” Drucci and Samuel ...
20 de mar. de 2009 · He lost the money, got a jail sentence, and never got the business, which O’Banion happily kept for himself. But things stayed quiet until November, 1924, when politician Mike Merlo, who had helped keep the peace, died. Two days later, three gunmen including Mike Genna went to Schofield’s Flowers, a State Street flower shop O’Banion co ...
I've written three books that examine the lives and crimes of early American gangsters: "Guns and Roses- The Untold Story of Dean O'Banion, Chicago's Big Shot Before Al Capone", "The Man Who Got Away- the Bugs Moran Story". and most recently "The Starker", which is a bio of New York gang boss Big Jack Zelig, who lived hard, died young, and could have saved Lieutenant Charles Becker from the ...
Chicago Tribune, February 3, 1929. “O NO! Swell fellow!” the sunny Dean O’Banion oft would exclaim when the air around him grew red with the curses of his fellow gangsters against a suspected gangster. “0, no! Swell fellow! .. he would say, in the manner of one who grieved that bitterness should poison the heart and defile the tongue of ...
