The Grave of Organized Crime Figure and Chicago Mobster Dean O'Banion. He was the Leader/Founder of the North Side Gang and was the main rival of mobsters Johnny Torrio and Al Capone during the brutal Chicago bootlegging wars of the 1920's. On the morning of November 10, 1924, O'Banion was clipping chrysanthemums in Schofield's' back room. Frankie Yale entered the shop with Genna gunmen John Scalise and Albert Anselmi. When O'Banion and Yale shook hands, Yale grasped O'Banion's hand in a tight g

The Schofield Flower Shop murder of Dean O'Banion - The History Guy

Shot dead in his flower shop, bootlegger Dean O’Banion got a classic gangland sendoff