Editing Johnny Torrio (section)

==Colosimo murder==
When [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]] went into effect in 1920, Torrio pushed for the gang to enter into [[Rum-running|bootlegging]], but Colosimo stubbornly refused. In March 1920, Colosimo secured an uncontested divorce from Victoria Moresco.<ref name=chicagodead>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/103733013/the-vice-lord-who-fell-in-love-with-a/ |title=The Vice Lord Who Fell in Love With a Choir Singer |first=June |last=Sawyers |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |page=163 |date=July 26, 1987 |access-date=2022-06-14 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> A month later, he and Dale Winter eloped to [[West Baden Springs, Indiana]]. Upon their return, he bought a home on the South Side.<ref name=chicagodead/> On May 11, 1920, Colosimo drove to Colosimo's Cafe to meet an associate he had never met before. He was shot and killed a few minutes after entering the restaurant by a gunman hiding in the cloak room. A bullet entered Colosimo's brain, behind his right ear. <ref name=Binder-2017/> Contract killer [[Frankie Yale]] had allegedly traveled from New York to Chicago and personally killed longtime gang boss Colosimo at the behest of Torrio.<ref>Schoenberg, pgs. 62-66</ref> Although suspected by Chicago police, Yale was never officially charged.<ref>Schoenberg, pgs. 62-65</ref> Colosimo was allegedly murdered because he stood in the way of his gang making bootlegging profits, having "gone soft" after his marriage with Winter.<ref name=chicagodead/>