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Founded | 1919 |
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Founded by | Dean O'Banion, Earl "Hymie" Weiss (born Henryk Wojciechowski) |
Founding location | North Side, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
Years active | 1919–1935 |
Territory | Various neighborhoods in Chicago, mainly North Chicago |
Ethnicity | Mainly Irish American, with German American, Polish American, Jewish American, and Italian American members |
Membership (est.) | Around 30 members |
Criminal activities | Racketeering, bootlegging, illegal gambling, extortion, robbery, murder |
Rivals | Chicago Outfit and Genna crime family |
The North Side Gang, also known as the North Side Mob, was an Irish-American criminal organization within Chicago during the Prohibition era from the early 1920s to the mid-1930s. It was the principal rival of the South Side Gang, also known as the Chicago Outfit, the crime syndicate of Italian-Americans Johnny Torrio and Al Capone.