The nation . h Corngolds place at 5914West Cermak Road, Cicero, III. Thisaddress was reported in ChicagoCrime Commission letters to the Sher-iffs office eight times in 1957. WhenCapone gang leader Louis LittleNew York Campagna appeared be-fore the Kcfauver U. S. Senate Com-mittee in 1950, he testified that hehad been in partnership with JosephCorngold and Willie Heeney in theoperation of two gambling places inCicero called the El Patio, at 591£West Cermak Road, and the AustinClub located at Roosevelt Road and :stin Boulevard. Campagna testi-fied that this partnership was startedin 1934 and his
The nation . h Corngolds place at 5914West Cermak Road, Cicero, III. Thisaddress was reported in ChicagoCrime Commission letters to the Sher-iffs office eight times in 1957. WhenCapone gang leader Louis LittleNew York Campagna appeared be-fore the Kcfauver U. S. Senate Com-mittee in 1950, he testified that hehad been in partnership with JosephCorngold and Willie Heeney in theoperation of two gambling places inCicero called the El Patio, at 591£West Cermak Road, and the AustinClub located at Roosevelt Road and :stin Boulevard. Campagna testi-fied that this partnership was startedin 1934 and his share of the earn-ings amounted to $75,000 a and Heeney are both de-ceased, but Corngold and the gam-bling place at 5914 West CermakRoad appear to go on forever withthe blessing ol Cicero officials. I hey went on just as merrily in1958 as il the Chicago Crime Com-mission, whose published reportswere certainly no secret, had notspoken so bluntly in 1957. Obvious-ly, officials in Cicero and Cook. County, if they could read, were notpracticing the art; but the ChicagoCrime Commission, hopeful that theymight be encouraged to indulge inthis elemental practice, continued todirect specific reports containingspecific details about big-time gam-bling to Sheriff Lohmans office in1958. It sent the Sheriff, in all, sevenletters pinpointing eighty-two gam-bling spots; and finally, in a letterdated October 22, 1958, in which it listed seventeen addresses, the com-mission injected a sharp and unmis-takable needle. Many of the gam-bling places set forth, it wrote,have been known to your office fora number of years. Yet the placescontinue to operate without fear ofraids or arrests. Making Headlines One of these much-named gam-bling places became involved inheadline disclosures that caused aflush ol embarrassment to rise to thecheeks ol officials not generally sus-ceptible to that particular his contretemps arose over a ma-jor Capone syndicate crap game thatwas clicking
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