Reputedly a top figure in the Chicago Outfit for decades John DiFronzo, 89, died on Monday of complications from dementia in his River Grove home according to his grandson. John DiFronzo was born in Italy and moved with his father Michael (Michele) a metal plater, and his mother Delores to Chicago in the mid-1930s. He attended Wells High School on the North Side. Mr. DiFronzo was a long time resident of River Grove. There was a short funeral home visitation on Thursday morning at Salerno's Galewood Chapel on Harlem Ave. followed quickly by a family service and interment at Queen of Heaven Cemetery.
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John DiFronzo was nicknamed No Nose. He was an American mobster and the reputed former boss of the Chicago Outfit. DiFronzo, a former enforcer and caporegime, first appeared with a criminal record in 1949. He got the nickname "No Nose" because he sliced off part of his nose while jumping through a window during a 1949 clothing store burglary. Reportedly, the police gave him back the missing part which was almost perfectly restored.
In 1950, DiFronzo served two years in prison for burglary. DiFronzo was a suspect in the unsolved 1952 murder of Charles Gross, a West Side politician with suspected ties to organized crime. He was a member of the Three Minute Gang and identified as a member of a loansharking operation along with former Chicago police officers Albert Sarno and Christopher Cardi in 1964.
Reputedly a top figure in the Chicago Outfit for decades John DiFronzo, 89, died on Monday of complications from dementia in his River Grove home according to his grandson. John DiFronzo was born in Italy and moved with his father Michael (Michele) a metal plater, and his mother Delores to Chicago in the mid-1930s. He attended Wells High School on the North Side. Mr. DiFronzo was a long time resident of River Grove. There was a short funeral home visitation on Thursday morning at Salerno's Galewood Chapel on Harlem Ave. followed quickly by a family service and interment at Queen of Heaven Cemetery.
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John DiFronzo was nicknamed No Nose. He was an American mobster and the reputed former boss of the Chicago Outfit. DiFronzo, a former enforcer and caporegime, first appeared with a criminal record in 1949. He got the nickname "No Nose" because he sliced off part of his nose while jumping through a window during a 1949 clothing store burglary. Reportedly, the police gave him back the missing part which was almost perfectly restored.
In 1950, DiFronzo served two years in prison for burglary. DiFronzo was a suspect in the unsolved 1952 murder of Charles Gross, a West Side politician with suspected ties to organized crime. He was a member of the Three Minute Gang and identified as a member of a loansharking operation along with former Chicago police officers Albert Sarno and Christopher Cardi in 1964.
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